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
Roald Hoffmann
Born: July 18, 1937 (age 87)
Bio: Roald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.
Known for:
- The same and not the same (1995)
- Chemistry imagined (1993)
- Gaps and verges (1990)
- Old wine, new flasks (1997)
- Soliton: Poems (2002)