Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, an idealist who was deeply involved with pacifism, the fight against fascism, the search for world peace, and the analysis of artistic genius. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.
... a force applied to it and will start rotating perpendicular to the force applied. This is why spinning gyro tops will not simply fall over, but start precessing ...