Crystallographer

🇬🇧Dorothy Hodgkin

Science

1910–1994

"Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules...were just as experiments suggested?"

🇦🇹Max Perutz

Science

1914–2002

"Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?"

"a system in which all relevant information would be available to each research worker in an amplitude proportional to its degree of relevance."

🇬🇧Rosalind Franklin

Science

1920–1958

"What’s the use of doing all this work if we don't get some fun out of this?"

🇺🇸Peter Debye

Science

1884–1966

"Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations."

🇬🇧William Henry Bragg

Science

1862–1942

"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles."

🇺🇸Linus Pauling

Science

atheism

1901–1994

"The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war."