Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Kathleen Lonsdale
Born: January 28, 1903
Died: April 1, 1971 (aged 68)
Bio: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS was a British crystallographer who proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene.