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.
Vitaly Ginzburg
Born: October 4, 1916
Died: November 8, 2009 (aged 93)
Bio: Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb.
Known for:
- The origin of cosmic rays (1964)
- Theoretical physics and astrophysics (1979)