Written by Michio Kaku Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Nov 14, 2024 • Article History Quick Facts Born: March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany Died: April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. Awards And Honors: Copley Medal (1925) Nobel ...
“I was interested in astronomy from the very first,” said Flammarion to me, during a recent visit which I paid to him in his fifth-floor apartment in the Rue Cassini, a remote quarter of Paris, hard by the observatory, “and I shall never forget with what joy I carried home the fi...
William Thomson was born on 26 Jun 1824 in College Square East, Belfast, Ireland, the second son of four children. His mother died when he was six, and when aged eight, he moved with the family to Glasgow (1833) where his father, James Thomson, had been appointed as professor of mathe...