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.
Kenichi Fukui

Born: October 4, 1918
Died: January 9, 1998 (aged 79)
Bio: Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist, known as the first Asian scientist to receive a chemistry Nobel Prize.
Known for:
- Theory of orientation and stereoselection (1975)
- Orientation and Stereoselection (1970)