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.
Wilson A. Bentley

Born: February 9, 1865
Died: December 23, 1931 (aged 66)
Bio: Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley is one of the first known photographers of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated.
Known for:
- Snow Crystals (1931)
- Bentley's Snowflakes
- Snowflakes in Photographs (1931)