A County Antrim scientist whose work ranged from the development of the atomic bomb to the UK space programme has been commemorated with an Ulster History Circle Blue Plaque.
The plaque in honour of James Sayers was unveiled at the former National School next to Ballyweaney Presbyterian Church, near Cloughmills, on Thursday, October 17.
The plaque in honour of James Sayers was unveiled at the former National School next to Ballyweaney Presbyterian Church, near Cloughmills, on Thursday, October 17.
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00:00I suppose we highlight a wide range of people from many different backgrounds but I think
00:04there's really something special about the fact that somebody comes from a community
00:07like this, a rural community which most people would not pay much attention to in the widest
00:13sense and yet they become so, really it's phenomenal in terms of what James Sayers was
00:20responsible for and become so much part of the modern world that we know today from things
00:27like microwaves, space programs, the Manhattan Project, all of those things he was certainly
00:35a big part of so I think that you can look at the landscape and you don't see the things
00:40in the landscape and somebody who comes from a landscape like this and has really a spark
00:46of genius I think he has to have to develop the things he did to even from an early stage
00:52to be able to use water power to charge batteries to get electricity and for the community around
00:57him as well too, it's just quite phenomenal and deserves to be recognised and I think
01:03sometimes we can take the countryside for granted and take country communities for granted
01:06but you know you can't take people like James Sayers for granted and people in Corgi and
01:11this area around you should be very, very proud.