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.
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)