March 19, 2025

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

— Alexander Pope

BIRTHDAYS:

1589 William Bradford, English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in the Dutch Republic in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.

1593 Georges de la Tour, French painter of candlelit scenes, born in Vic-sur-Seille, Duchy of Lorraine.

1601 Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter and sculptor.

1668 Francesco Gasparini, Italian baroque composer (Ambleto; Missa Canonica), born in Camaiore, Republic of Lucca. Sonata per l’elevazione

1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish court painter.

1900 Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity.

1943 James Wynne, American physicist and co-inventor of excimer laser surgery at IBM.

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SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE:

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