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Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest
Saturday, 2 May 2009
Physicists on bicycles
(Above)
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr grew up absorbed in the natural history lessons taught by his biologist father and by various teachers and tutors, yet he was also interested in clocks
and he became an accomplished bicycle mechanic.
(Below)
Einstein
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