Aaron Schachter

Aaron Schachter

Aaron Schachter is an Assignment Editor for The World, developing and editing stories with staff and freelance reporters around the world. He previously spent 8 years covering the Middle East from Jerusalem and Beirut.

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Astronomer Tycho Brahe ‘Not Poisoned’

November 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Tycho Brahe (Painting by Eduard Ender/Wiki Commons)

Tycho Brahe (Painting by Eduard Ender/Wiki Commons)

New research suggests that Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer who died more than 400 years ago, was not felled by mercury poisoning.

Host Aaron Schachter has more.




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