August 24, 2016 Wednesday
Bedtime story
Now it may be appropriate enough to move on to Arthur Eddington, a man who did much to popularize Einstein's relativity and quite tragically was overshadowed by the man he himself popularized.
It is something like Sherlock Holmes who completely dwarfed and adumbrated his creator Arthur Conan Doyle.
Eddington was born in Kendal, England in 1882 when the British Empire was at its peak even though it had lost the hold of the colonies of North America.
He lost his father when he was just a 2-year old toddler to the typhoid epidemic that had swept across England, Europe and even the United States.
You may have heard about Typhoid Mary or Mary Mallon, the most notorious and perhaps even the most destructive carrier of typhoid fever, who had migrated from Ireland to the United States.
Over there, in New York City, while working as a cook, she had spread the Salmonella typhi bacteria, to more than 50 people.
The sanitation and the public hygiene conditions of England in those days was no different than any third world country of present.
Today India has the dishonour of being the country with the highest cases of typhoid fever because of lack of clean drinking water and the roadside stalls.
Loss of his father made life for the Eddingtons very harsh.
Yet Eddington turned out to be a bright student and did particularly well in mathematics and English literature.
Because of his persistent brilliant performance in academics, he eventually was awarded a fellowship to the prestigious Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.
From there, after bit of trial and error at the Cavendish Laboratory, he found his true calling in 1905 at the age of 23.
He secured a position at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and commenced his outstanding journey in the field of astronomy, astrophysics and eventually cosmology.
We will go in detail into the contributions made by this path breaking astrophysicist in the night to come.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Bedtime story
Now it may be appropriate enough to move on to Arthur Eddington, a man who did much to popularize Einstein's relativity and quite tragically was overshadowed by the man he himself popularized.
It is something like Sherlock Holmes who completely dwarfed and adumbrated his creator Arthur Conan Doyle.
Eddington was born in Kendal, England in 1882 when the British Empire was at its peak even though it had lost the hold of the colonies of North America.
He lost his father when he was just a 2-year old toddler to the typhoid epidemic that had swept across England, Europe and even the United States.
You may have heard about Typhoid Mary or Mary Mallon, the most notorious and perhaps even the most destructive carrier of typhoid fever, who had migrated from Ireland to the United States.
Over there, in New York City, while working as a cook, she had spread the Salmonella typhi bacteria, to more than 50 people.
The sanitation and the public hygiene conditions of England in those days was no different than any third world country of present.
Today India has the dishonour of being the country with the highest cases of typhoid fever because of lack of clean drinking water and the roadside stalls.
Loss of his father made life for the Eddingtons very harsh.
Yet Eddington turned out to be a bright student and did particularly well in mathematics and English literature.
Because of his persistent brilliant performance in academics, he eventually was awarded a fellowship to the prestigious Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.
From there, after bit of trial and error at the Cavendish Laboratory, he found his true calling in 1905 at the age of 23.
He secured a position at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and commenced his outstanding journey in the field of astronomy, astrophysics and eventually cosmology.
We will go in detail into the contributions made by this path breaking astrophysicist in the night to come.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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