Douglas Hugh Everett

Douglas Hugh Everett FRS FRSE MBE (26 December 1916 – 25 June 2002) was a British chemist and academic author. His most pertinent contributions to science were in the field of thermodynamics.[1]

He famously (in relation to scientists) said: There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality: and then there are some who turn one into the other.[2]

  1. ^ Ottewill, R. (2004). "Douglas Hugh Everett MBE. 26 December 1916 – 25 June 2002: Elected F.R.S. 1980". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 50: 93–107. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2004.0008. ISSN 0080-4606.
  2. ^ "1/index". worldofquotes.com. Retrieved 28 February 2018.