“One day I had the idea of radiation implosion. As in all ideas that have ever popped up in my head, there is no way I can trace the source.”

John Clive Ward

“Almost all the serious achievements are simple in principle... the ideas must be sufficiently simple.”

John Clive Ward

“... he has drawn attention to fundamental truths, and has laid down basic principles, which physicists have followed ... often without knowing it, and generally without quoting him.”

John Clive Ward

“By the end of 1955, Ward had independently conceived a two stage device, the radiation from the first (fission) stage being used to compress the light elements of the second stage...”

John Clive Ward

“In the early 1960s with Salam, Ward laid the groundwork for today's "standard model" of elementary particles.”

John Clive Ward