Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Robert N. Proctor

Born: June 25, 1954 (age 71)
Bio: Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry.
Known for:
- Racial hygiene (1988)
- Deaf People in Hitler's Europe (2002)
- The Nazi war on cancer (1997)