Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Ira Remsen
Born: February 10, 1846
Died: March 4, 1927 (aged 81)
Bio: Ira Remsen was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.
Known for:
- A College Text-book of Chemistry (1901)
- Principles of theoretical chemistry (1877)
- An Introduction to the Study of Chemistry (1886)