Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Born: April 25, 1879
Died: December 28, 1964 (aged 85)
Bio: Edwin Bidwell Wilson was an American mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protégé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson.
Known for:
- Aeronautics (1920)