Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Vitaly Ginzburg
Born: October 4, 1916
Died: November 8, 2009 (aged 93)
Bio: Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb.
Known for:
- The origin of cosmic rays (1964)
- Theoretical physics and astrophysics (1979)