11 August

Born in 1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, American director and producer.

Above: Stills from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, directed by Rosenberg.

Also, born in 1905, Austrian-American biochemist and author of Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature, Erwin Chargaff, who said:

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

and

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘how?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘why?’