Douglas Hugh Everett FRS FRSE MBE (26 December 1916 – 25 June 2002) was a British chemist and academic author.
[1] He famously (in relation to scientists) said: There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality: and then there are some who turn one into the other.
[2] He was born in Hampton, London on 26 December 1916 the son of Charles Everett, who was then serving as a Captain in France in the Middlesex Regiment.
In 1947 he left England to lecture in Chemistry at Dundee University.
However, a counter offer of a Professorship in Dundee tempted him back in 1948.