Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
John Henry Poynting
Born: September 9, 1852
Died: March 30, 1914 (aged 61)
Bio: John Henry Poynting was an English physicist. He was a professor of physics at Mason Science College, from 1880 to 1900, and then the successor institution, the University of Birmingham until his death.
Known for:
- Collected Scientific Papers
- The Earth: Its Shape, Size, Weight and Spin (1913)
- The Pressure of Light (1907)
- A Text-book of Physics (1900)