Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Alfred Werner
Born: December 12, 1866
Died: November 15, 1919 (aged 52)
Bio: Alfred Werner was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes.