richard davisson

Professor Richard Joseph "Dick" Davisson (December 29 1922 — June 15 2004) was an American physicist. Davisson was the son of Clinton Davisson, a Nobel laureate and his wife Charlotte. His maternal uncle, Sir Owen Richardson was also a Nobel laureate. During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project as part of the Special Engineer Detachment. At Los Alamos, he was recruited by Professor Robert Williams (scientist) to teach at the University of Washington. Davisson was a member of the Washington team which designed a system for detecting a subatomic particle known as a muon. After the U.S. government pulled the funding on the Superconducting Supercollider project, the team was recruited by CERN to provide the system to Europe's state-of-the-art particle accelerator. Davisson retired in 2000, at the age of 77.

Quotation

"There are no physicists in the hottest parts of Hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of Hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible."

External links

Richard Davisson on wikiquote

Davisson, Richard Davisson, Richard

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