Quote of the day
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Bernard Lovell
Born: August 31, 1913
Died: August 6, 2012 (aged 98)
Bio: Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
Known for:
- Voice of the universe (1987)
- Emerging Cosmology (1981)
- Echoes of war (1991)
- Astronomer by chance (1990)