Quote of the day
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Basil John Mason

Born: August 18, 1923
Died: January 6, 2015 (aged 91)
Bio: Sir John Mason is an expert on cloud physics and former Director of the UK Meteorological Office. His work includes the Mason Equation, giving the growth or evaporation of small water droplets.
Known for:
- The physics of clouds (1957)
- Clouds, rain, and rainmaking (1962)
- The Surface Waters Acidification Programme (1990)






