Ocupation: Physicist
Life: April 28, 1831 - July 4, 1901
Birthday: April 28
Death: July 4
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.
source: "Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 11, 1911.