Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Hans Zinsser
Born: November 17, 1878
Died: September 4, 1940 (aged 61)
Bio: Hans Zinsser was an American physician, bacteriologist, and prolific author. The author of over 200 books and medical articles, he was also a published poet. Some of his verses were published in The Atlantic Monthly.
Known for:
- Rats, Lice, and History (1935)
- Zinsser microbiology
- As I Remember Him, the Biography of R. S (1940)