Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Guido Beck

Born: August 29, 1903
Died: October 21, 1988 (aged 85)
Bio: Guido Beck was a physicist born in what was then the town of Reichenberg in the Kingdom of Bohemia, and is now Liberec in the Czech Republic. He studied physics in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1925, under Hans Thirring.