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.
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)