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Alfred Ubbelohde
(14 Dec 1907 - 7 Jan 1988)
English physical chemist who research included studies in chemical thermodynamics, combustion, explosions and detonations. His observation that deuteration increases hydrogen bond length is now known as the Ubbelohde effect. He published a number of books on chemistry.
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Science Quotes by Alfred Ubbelohde (1 quote)
It is a remarkable illustration of the ranging power of the human intellect that a principle first detected in connection with the clumsy puffing of the early steam engines should be found to apply to the whole world, and possibly, even to the whole cosmic universe.
— Alfred Ubbelohde
In Man and Energy (1955, 1963), 132.
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) -- 
