Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Derek Jackson

Born: June 23, 1906
Died: February 20, 1982 (aged 75)
Bio: Professor Derek Ainslie Jackson was a spectroscopist and also a jockey. Derek Jackson was one of the outstanding atomic physicists of his generation.