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.

Fritz London in 1928

Quotes

• Modern physics often advances only by sacrificing some of our traditional philosophical convictions.
  • Fritz London, Edmond Bauer (1939). La théorie de l'observation en mécanique quantique. Hermann, Paris. 
  • Translation by John Archibald Wheeler, Wojciech Hubert Zurek (1983). Quantum Theory and Measurement. Princeton University Press. p. 220. ISBN 0-691-08315-0.