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.
Jan Burgers

Born: January 13, 1895
Died: June 7, 1981 (aged 86)
Bio: Johannes Martinus Burgers was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist W. G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918.