Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories … — John Henry Carver

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 CarverPhysicist · Australian

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