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Henry Way Kendall byl americký fyzik, který společně s Jeromem Isaakem Friedmanem a Richardem Edwardem Taylorem roku 1990 získal Nobelovu cenu na fyziku.

Po studiích matematiky na Deerfield Academy a Amherst College se věnoval výzkumu na Massachusettském technologickém institutu v Cambridgi. Koncem šedesátých a počátkem sedmdesátých let se spolupodílel na výzkumu při Stanfordském středisku lineárního urychlovače.

Ve svém volném čase se věnoval alpinismu a fotografování. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. prosinec 1926 – 15. únor 1999
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“While science and technology play critical roles in sustaining modern civilization, they are not part of our culture in the sense that they are not commonly studied or well comprehended. Neither the potential nor the limitations of science are understood so that what can be achieved and what is beyond reach are not comprehended. The line between science and magic becomes blurred so that public judgments on technical issues can be erratic or badly flawed. It frequently appears that some people will believe almost anything. Thus judgments can be manipulated or warped by unscrupulous groups. Distortions or outright falsehoods can come to be accepted as fact.”

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Varianta: [Henry Way Kendall, A distant light: scientists and public policy, Springer, 2000, 0387988335, 4]

“The world's problems are pressing in on us all. The scale and impact of human activities now affects a great portion of the global resources important to human welfare. These activities are putting growing, often destructive pressure on the global environment, pressure that appears likely to increase as human numbers swell toward the doubling of the world's population that evidently lies ahead. These pressures can spawn or aggravate conflict that. in a world with so much destructive weaponry, generates important national security problems. Great changes are necessary to help ensure a humane future for the generations to come.
Most of the world's scientific community and many people in the environmental movement are aware of the gravity of the problems. Yet despite sober warnings from these and other groups, in both the industrial and the developing world, re- medial efforts frequently appear powerless and ineffectual. The scientific community has not taken a sustained, powerful role in the public arena where this great cluster of issues is debated and where the problems must be resolved. There is much more that our community can contribute to assessment, warning, and proposals for new patterns of behavior.”

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Zdroj: A Distant Light : Scientists and Public Policy (2000), Introduction, p. 1