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Marie Curie

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Antoine Lavoisier

A French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution.

Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Danish–German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

A Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

John Hunter (surgeon)

John Hunter (surgeon)

A Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day.

Anna Komnene

A Byzantine princess and author of the Alexiad, an account of the reign of her father, the Byzant...

Elon Musk

One in a lifetime entrepreneur, business giant, scientist & engineer. The man behind Tesla, Space...

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Adam Smith’s Moral and Political Philosophy

Adam Smith’s Moral and Political Philosophy

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Adam Smith developed a comprehensive and unusual version of moral sentimentalism in his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759, TMS). He did not expressly lay out a political philosophy in similar detail, but a distinctive set of views on politics can be extrapolated from elements of both TMS and his Wealth of Nations (1776, WN); student notes from his lectures on jurisprudence (1762–1763, LJ) have also helped flesh out his thoughts on governance. A central thread running through his work is an unusually strong commitment to the soundness of the ordinary human being’s judgments, and a concern to ...

60 Years: Daniel Barenboim on Israel

60 Years: Daniel Barenboim on Israel

danielbarenboim.com

There are photographs hanging on the walls of my dressing room in the Staatsoper Berlin, photographs that remind me of what I see when I look out the windows of my house in Jerusalem. They are slightly faded and here and there the paper is crumbling, but one can easily recognize the views. The old city, the Dome of the Rock with its shining cupola, the walls, the gates. Sometimes I sit in this room before a performance, looking at these pictures and thinking of Jerusalem, of Israel, my home. Before 1989, this room was supposedly a refuge of the East German Stasi, the state police; if I happ...

The Blasphemous Geologist Who Rocked Our Understanding of Earth’s Age

The Blasphemous Geologist Who Rocked Our Understanding of Earth’s Age

smithsonianmag.com

On a June afternoon in 1788, James Hutton stood before a rock outcropping on Scotland’s western coast named Siccar Point. There, before a couple of other members of the Scottish Enlightenment, he staked his claim as the father of modern geology.Aa Hutton told the skeptics who accompanied him there by boat, Siccar Point illustrated a blasphemous truth: the Earth was old, almost beyond comprehension.Three years earlier, he’d unveiled two papers, together called "Theory of the Earth," at a pair of meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Hutton propose...

Fermat and the greatest problem in the history of mathematics

Fermat and the greatest problem in the history of mathematics

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There was a time when mathematics flourished thanks to some passionate relationships by letter. It was in France, at the beginning of the 17th century, when the habit of challenging oneself to solve problems and numerical puzzles spread among the intellectual elite. And from those letters and challenges were born new disciplines of that science, like the theory of probabilities or infinitesimal calculus. At the heart of that intense postal exchange was Pierre de Fermat, an enthusiast who became one of the most greatest mathematicians of all time, known both for his discoveries and for a fin...

Adam Smith’s Moral and Political Philosophy

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The Blasphemous Geologist Who Rocked Our Understanding of Earth’s Age

Fermat and the greatest problem in the history of mathematics

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Frank Drake Is Still Searching for E.T.

Astronomy

Frank Drake Is Still Searching for E.T.

When astronomer Frank Drake organized the first SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) conference back in 1961 in Green Bank, West Virginia, only a dozen people attended.“I invited everyone in the world I knew about who was interested in the subject or who had written something ab...

Cruel despot or wise reformer? Napoleon’s two faces go on view

military

Cruel despot or wise reformer? Napoleon’s two faces go on view

A young, well-read and highly intelligent Frenchman comes to power, defeating an ultra-rightwing group. He has ambitions to reform France and place his country at the heart of a unified Europe. Britain, with its constant demands for free trade with the continent, is a constant irritant. French ex...

George de Hevesy in America

Chemistry

George de Hevesy in America

Neither of the authors of this Letter to the Editor was aware of Hevesy’s association with Cornell University despite our longstanding ties to Cornell until one of us (William. C. Klingensmith) noticed the association in Hevesy’s biographic page on the official Nobel website (6). Klingensmith obt...