Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Ronald Ross
Born: May 13, 1857
Died: September 16, 1932 (aged 75)
Bio: Sir Ronald Ross FRCS, was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside of Europe.
Known for:
- The Revels of Orsera: A Mediaeval Romance (1920)
- The Prevention of Malaria (1907)
- Fables (1907)