Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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)