Word: quain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaged in another kind of recreation which took the form of a very pleasant altercation-not only typically British but typical of the well-ballasted wit of the man of science anywhere-with Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, F. R. S.. F. Inst. P., D. Sc., Quain professor of physics at the University of London, editor for physics of Encyclopedia Britannica, author of The Structure of the Atom, The Atom, The Mechanism of Nature. Professor Andrade lists his recreations as "golf, poetry, collecting old scientific books and useless knowledge...