The Influence of J. D. Bernal

Dorothy Crowfoot (see below) was a member of the Bernal group from 1932 to 1934, and she described the very pleasant working atmosphere, particularly the convivial lunches  

Every day, one of the group would go and buy fresh bread from Fitzbillies, fruit and cheese from the market, while another made coffee on the gas ring in the comer of the bench. One day there was talk about anaerobic bacteria on the bottom of a lake in Russia and the origin of life, another, about Romanesque architecture in French villages, or Leonardo da Vinci s engines of war or about poetry or printing. We never knew to what enchanted land we would be taken next.45 

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