Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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.