Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
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)