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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge

(12 Jun 1851 - 22 Aug 1940)

English physicist who perfected a radio-wave detector and provided his laboratory facilities to conduct the first clinical use of X-rays in England.

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Sir Oliver Lodge

Cigarette Card Caricature

Issued by Godfrey Phillips Cigarettes

Personalities of To-Day: No. 8 of a series of 25 Caricatures

Caricature white-haired, white bearded scientist, 3-piece suit, lab bench with retort background. flask in hand spilling liquid.

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Reverse of card with text about Sir Oliver Lodge

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Text on the back of the card: “This famous scientist, who was born in 1851, was Professor of Physics at University College, Liverpool, from 1881 to 1900, when he became Principal of the new Birmingham University, being knighted in 1902. President of the British Association in 1913-14, he was awarded the Albert Medal of the Society of Arts in 1919. His writings deal chiefly with electricity, but his purely scientific work has been supplemented by excursions into the field of spiritualism.”

Card, 1-3/8 x 2-5/8 inches, issued (1932) in England by Godfrey Phillips Ltd, as an insert in their cigarette carton. Images courtesy of moviecard.com (source)

Oliver Joseph Lodge quote: ...it is probable that the scheme of physics will be enlarged so as to embrace the behaviour of livin

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Oliver Joseph Lodge quote: Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be disc

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See also:

Science Quotes by Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge.
12 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Lodge's birth.
Making of Man: A study in Evolution, by Oliver Joseph Lodge. - book suggestion.
Booklist for Sir Oliver J. Lodge.

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Carl Sagan: 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) ...(more by Sagan)

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Richard Feynman: It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly. ...(more by Feynman)