Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
John Cornforth

Born: September 7, 1917
Died: December 8, 2013 (aged 96)
Bio: Sir John Warcup "Kappa" Cornforth, Jr., AC, CBE, FRS, FAA, was an Australian British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.