Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
George Frederick Barker

Born: July 14, 1835
Died: May 24, 1910 (aged 74)
Bio: George Frederick Barker was an American physician and scientist. He graduated at the Yale Scientific School in 1858. He was successively chemical assistant in Harvard Medical School in 1858 1859 and 1860 1861, professor of chemistry and geology in Wheaton College.
Known for:
- Memoir of John William Draper: 1811-1882 (1886)
- The correlation of vital and physical forces (1870)






