Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Leopold Infeld
Born: August 20, 1898
Died: January 15, 1968 (aged 69)
Bio: Leopold Infeld was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada. He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Known for:
- The Evolution of Physics (1938)
- Quest
- Motion and relativity (1960)