Quote of the day
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
William Ramsay
Born: October 2, 1852
Died: July 23, 1916 (aged 63)
Bio: Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air".