Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
C. V. Boys
Born: March 15, 1855
Died: March 30, 1944 (aged 89)
Bio: Sir Charles Vernon Boys, FRS was a British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.
Known for:
- Soap bubbles and the forces which mould them (1890)