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(Strontian, town in Scotland) Isolated by Davey by electrolysis in 1808; however, AdairCrawford in 1790 recognized a new mineral (strontianite) as differing from other bariumminerals.
'The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative... '
