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Ralph Eugene Lapp
(24 Aug 1917 - 7 Sep 2004)
American nuclear physicist and author who began his career in high-energy physics research before working on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Lapp wrote and traveled lecturing on both the dangers of nuclear fallout and the possible peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
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Science Quotes by Ralph Eugene Lapp (1 quote)
Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation is dangerous, let there be no mistake about that—but the modern world abounds in dangerous substances and situations too numerous to mention. ... Consider radiation as something to be treated with respect, avoided when practicable, and accepted when inevitable.
Recommending the same view towards radiation as the risks of automobile travel.
Recommending the same view towards radiation as the risks of automobile travel.
— Ralph Eugene Lapp
While in the Office of Naval Research. In Must we Hide? (1949), 44.
See also:
- 24 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Lapp's birth.
- The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon, by Ralph Lapp. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Ralph Lapp.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
