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Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn
(7 Jan 1906 - 18 Sep 1980)
German-British medical physicist and author who installed the first helium liquifier at Oxford, and conducted important work prior to WW II on superconductivity.
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Science Quotes by Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn (1 quote)
Dewar’s rule in his laboratory was as absolute as that of a Pharaoh, and he showed deference to no one except the ghost of Faraday whom he met occasionally all night in the gallery behind the lecture room.
— Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn
In The Quest for Absolute Zero (1945, 1966), 73.
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) -- 
