John Henry Carver Quotes

John Henry Carver — Australian Physicist

John Henry Carver AM was an Australian physicist who worked in nuclear and atmospheric physics... (wikipedia)

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.

John Henry Carver Quotes

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