Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
M. M. Pattison Muir

Born: 1848
Died: 1931 (aged 83)
Bio: Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, FRSE, FCS was a chemist and author. He taught chemistry at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and was head of the Caius Laboratory there.
Known for:
- A treatise on the principles of chemistry (1884)
- The Chemical Elements (1897)