Quote of the day
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Curt Richter

Born: February 20, 1894
Died: December 21, 1988 (aged 94)
Bio: Curt Paul Richter was a biologist, psychobiologist and geneticist at Johns Hopkins University. Richter identified the hypothalamus as a "biological pacemaker" involved in sleeping and wakefulness.