Fritz London Quotes

Fritz Wolfgang London was a German physicist and professor at Duke University. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry. With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on five separate occasions. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. March 1900 – 30. March 1954
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Fritz London Quotes

“Modern physics often advances only by sacrificing some of our traditional philosophical convictions.”

[Fritz London, Edmond Bauer, La théorie de l'observation en mécanique quantique, Hermann, Paris, 1939]
Translation by [John Archibald Wheeler, Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Quantum Theory and Measurement, Princeton University Press, 1983, 0-691-08315-0, 220]

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