Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Joseph Rotblat
Born: November 4, 1908
Died: August 31, 2005 (aged 96)
Bio: Sir Joseph Rotblat was a Polish physicist, a self-described "Pole with a British passport". Rotblat worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project during World War II, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory after the war with Germany ended.
Known for:
- A quest for global peace
- Scientists in the quest for peace (1972)