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It is no matter of chance that the greatest scientists of all time, Copernicus, Newton, Kepler, Linnaeus, Faraday, Darwin, and Maxwell, were men of noble character, modest, straightforward, and full of human sympathy. The great French mathematician, Henri Poincare, stated that the chief end of life is contemplation, not action.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
William Seifriz
Born:
August 11, 1888
Died:
July 13, 1955
(aged 66)
Bio:
William Seifriz was a Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania and an important figure in the history of plant physiology and plant cell biology.
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