Wednesday, June 11, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Ambition

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

- Epictetus

Topic of the Day

Nicholas Metropolis

Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was an Greek American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist. Metropolis received his B.Sc. (1937) and Ph.D. (1941) degrees in experimental physics at the University of Chicago. Shortly afterwards, Robert Oppenheimer recruited him from Chicago, where he was at the time collaborating with Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller on the first nuclear reactors, to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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