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John Hasbrouck van Vleck
(13 Mar 1899 - 28 Nov 1980)
American quantum physicist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on the magnetic properties of atoms.
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Science Quotes by John Hasbrouck van Vleck (1 quote)
It’s pretty hard for me to lecture in French. I had to go to the Riviera afterwards to recuperate; I don’t know what the audience had to do.
— John Hasbrouck van Vleck
Referring to his eight lectures to l’Institute Henri Poincaré in May 1939. From Oral History interview with Charles Weiner and Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics (28 Feb 1966). Quoted in his obituary, Brebis Bleaney, 'John Hasbrouck van Vleck Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (1982), 28, 643.
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- 13 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Vleck's birth.
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.
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