Louis Albert Necker

Louis Albert Necker de Saussure FRSE MWS FGS (10 April 1786 – 20 November 1861) was a Swiss crystallographer and geographer.

[1] He is best remembered for devising the optical illusion now known as the Necker cube.

[3][4][5] He was educated in Geneva, then sent to Edinburgh University in Scotland to study Sciences from 1806 to 1808.

He returned to Scotland in 1841 and settled on the Isle of Skye, lodging with the Cameron family at Bosville Terrace in Portree.

His scientific interests turned to astronomy and a study of the aurora borealis.