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.
Sidney Drell

Born: September 13, 1926
Died: December 21, 2016 (aged 90)
Bio: Sidney David Drell was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. He was a professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Known for:
- The Gravest Danger (2003)
- Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (1964)
- Sakharov Remembered (1961)