John Henry Carver Quotes

• Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

  John Henry Carver

  Chance, Professors, Shops

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• In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

  John Henry Carver

  Two, Competition, Giants

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

  John Henry Carver

  Math, Physics, Mathematics

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

  John Henry Carver

  Father, House, Carpentry

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• 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.

  John Henry Carver

  War, Engineering, Medicine

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• 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.

  John Henry Carver

  Memories, Father, Journey

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