Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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.