Quote of the day
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Born: April 28, 1928
Died: July 18, 1997 (aged 69)
Bio: Eugene Merle Shoemaker, also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy.