THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

— Isaac Asimov

BIRTHDAYS:

1620 Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter (church interiors)

1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist, born in Hausen, Schwarzburg-Arnstad. Machs mit mir Gott, nach deiner Güt

1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the “father of modern taxonomy”.

1741 Andrea Lucchesi, Italian composer. Sonata n 4 in FA maggiore, and “L’Harmonique” from Sonata Op. 1 No. 5

1834 Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter.

1908 John Bardeen, American solid-state physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Houser Brattain for their invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their fundamental theory of superconductivity, known as the BCS theory.

1946 H. Paul Shuch, American scientist who coordinated radio amateurs to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, May 23 – June 1

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)