Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)