Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Born: September 30, 1870
Died: April 17, 1942 (aged 71)
Bio: Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter.
Known for:
- Brownian Movement and Molecular Reality (1910)
- Atoms