"Modern physics often advances only by sacrificing some of our traditional philosophical convictions."
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Fritz London
Fritz Wolfgang London (March 7, 1900 – March 30, 1954) was a German-born American theoretical physicist. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces) are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry.
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