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Sir James Dewar
(20 Sep 1842 - 27 Mar 1923)
Scottish chemist and physicist whose research with materials at low-temperature led him to devise the Dewar vacuum-insulated double-walled flask, now familiar as the thermos bottle. He also was a co-inventor of cordite smokeless explosive powder.
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Quotes by others about Sir James Dewar (2)
Dewar’s rule in his laboratory was as absolute as that of a Pharaoh, and he showed deference to no one except the ghost of Faraday whom he met occasionally all night in the gallery behind the lecture room.
In The Quest for Absolute Zero (1945, 1966), 73.
Sir James Dewar
Is cleverer than you are.
None of you asses
Can condense gases.
Is cleverer than you are.
None of you asses
Can condense gases.
In Abraham Pais, Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1986), 137.
See also:
- 20 Sep - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Dewar's birth.
- James Dewar - Solid Air Experiment from The Manufacturer and Builder (1893).
- James Dewar - Biography from Scientific American (1910).
- Air: Scientific Discoveries and Inventions - from Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (1904).
- Air: Scientific Discoveries and Inventions - from Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (1904).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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