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
William Henry Bragg
Born: July 2, 1862
Died: March 12, 1942 (aged 79)
Bio: Sir William Henry Bragg was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman, and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Known for:
- Concerning the Nature of Things (1925)
- Studies in radioactivity (1912)
- The World of Sound (1920)
- X Rays and Crystal Structure (1915)