Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Léon Brillouin
Born: August 7, 1889
Died: October 4, 1969 (aged 80)
Bio: Léon Nicolas Brillouin was a French physicist. He made contributions to quantum mechanics, radio wave propagation in the atmosphere, solid state physics, and information theory.
Known for:
- Science and information theory (1956)
- Wave propagation and group velocity (1960)
- Relativity reexamined
- Scientific Uncertainty and Information (1964)