John Cunningham McLennan Quotes

Sir John Cunningham McLennan, was a Canadian physicist.

Born in Ingersoll, Ontario, the son of David McLennan and Barbara Cunningham, he was the director of the physics laboratory at the University of Toronto from 1906 until 1932.

McLennan delivered the Guthrie lecture to the Physical Society in 1918. In 1926, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal.

✵ 14. October 1867 – 9. October 1935
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John Cunningham McLennan Quotes

“We don't want support for scientific research just to keep scientists busy: we want scientists to be looked upon by the public as people who can do things for them that they can't do themselves.”

John Cunningham McLennan

as quoted by Gordon Shrum. In an article by Robert Craig Brown, The life of Sir John Cunningham McLennan http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/overview/history/mclennan, Physics in Canada, March / April 2000.

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