Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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.