THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The first requirement of a scientist is to be curious. He must be capable of being astonished and eager to find out.”

— Erwin Schrödinger

BIRTHDAYS:

1626 Giovanni Legrenzi, Venetian Baroque organist and composer, born in Clusone, Republic of Venice. Il mio core non è con me, and Balletto secondo a cinque (op. 16), and Il ballo del Gran Duca

1644 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer, baptized in Wartenberg, Kingdom of Bohemia. Battalia à 10, and Passacaglia for solo violin

1696 Maurice Greene, English composer. Voluntary No.10 in D minor, and A Fancy, and “Lord, let me know mine end”

1849 Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and naturalist.

1854 Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor and goldsmith (Eros statue in Piccadilly).

1887 Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for postulating the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. Schrödinger coined the term “quantum entanglement” in 1935.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. AND FOR ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS A HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)