Popular Culture
A fictional portrait of Bernal appears in the novel The Search, an early work of his friend C. P. Snow. He was also said to be the inspiration for the character Tengal in The Holiday by Stevie Smith.
| “ | Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states. —Bernal, MSN Encarta |
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