A man says to his friend: "My wife's credit card got stolen last week."
"That's a shame," says the friend: "have you told the police?"
"No way," says the man: "the thief is spending less than she did!"
Eugene Newman ParkerBorn 10 Jun 1927.American physicist who has done extensive research on the solar wind and the effects of magnetic fields in the heliosphere. In addition to increasing the understanding of the solar corona, his work has investigated the complex electromagnetic interactions both on the sun and its interaction with the earth's magnetic field. He lived to see theoretical models (which he developed before the space age) become confirmed by space probes into the heliosphere. His original ideas were formed from the limited information available from observations of the tails of comets as they were modified travelling near to the sun.« |
