14 Quotes by John Henry Carver

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    Nobody with any sense would go into building the Van de Graaff, so that was left to honours people who were making sacrifices, really.

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    One of the good things we did, which was extremely valuable to me, was to make loads and loads of different sorts of Geiger counters.

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    I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.

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    Knowing I needed to build some counters, I began by putting together a good vacuum system and a pumping system to build ion chambers of some sort.

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    The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.

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    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.

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    In Canberra my vision of what could happen in nuclear physics really depended on the big successes we might have had in the particle physics area.

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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.

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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.

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