Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by John Joly

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish scientist John Joly.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

John Joly FRS was an Irish physicist and professor of geology at the University of Dublin, known for his development of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer. He is also known for developing techniques to more accurately estimate the age of a geological period, based on radioactive elements present in minerals, the uranium–thorium dating.

Irish - Scientist | November 1, 1857 - December 8, 1933

Source: Wikipedia

We live in an epoch of denudation.

John Joly

Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.

John Joly