Quote of the day
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
Gerard Kuiper
Born: December 7, 1905
Died: December 23, 1973 (aged 68)
Bio: Gerard Peter Kuiper was a Dutch American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. He is the eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science.