Named by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode. "Hershel" would have been better, IMO! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus
Just managed to watch A Theory of Everything, while Mrs Ash and the nipper are at a Filipino house warming. I can see why my colleague made the point that she made. In the movie he does appear at one point to acknowledge a god. In fact the movie quotes from his book, A Brief History of Time. Though seemingly he has also said that he nearly cut that line out but if he had then the book would not have sold so well. What an amazing life he and his wife had. 2 years to live... Noticed that the actor that played him has now been given an OBE
rofl English is just wonderful for those kind of things, that one is apparently a fake though Bob Couttie said so I have read New Scientist magazine for the last 44 years and in their feedback column at the back about two decades ago they started reporting on what they called nominative determinism a similar wonderful feature of the English language Some examples just drawn off the web on a quick search, I wish I had the best ones from New Scientist Wright Hassall Solicitors' Robbie Fowler Footballer Alan Heavens Professor of Astrophysics Rich Ricci CEO of Barclays Capital In science publishing :- "The evolving epidemiology of HIV/AIDS" by Doctor de Cock et al. AIDS. "Does anonymity increase the reporting of mental health symptoms?" by Fear et al. "Reflections on sixty years of solid state chemistry" by Goodenough. Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry And in medicine :- Dr. Richard (Dick) Chopp is an Austin urologist who is known for performing vasectomies. And my own personal experience of my recent consultation this last couple of weeks with my gastroenterologist Dr G Butcher
