Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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)