Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
- Kurt Herbert Alder (1902-1958)
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Births
1861 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1889 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer
1941 - Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
Deaths
1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist
1958 - Kurt Alder,…
Events
1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching…
Though the Sun is gone, I have a light. -Kurt Cobain
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