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Illya Nyzhnyk

Illya Igorevich Nyzhnyk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (2011)

George Green

British mathematical physicist who was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electr...

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A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

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Henry Thomas Buckle

An English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization considered to be the Fa...

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György Cziffra

A Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer who was taught by István Thomán, who was a favou...

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The Legend of Jay Gould

The Legend of Jay Gould

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He was the quintessential nineteenth century Robber Baron. One writer called him “The Mephistopheles of Wall Street.” A newspaper editor branded him “one of the most sinister figures that have ever flitted bat-like across the vision of the American people.” He even proclaimed himself “The Most Hated Man in America.” And even though his notoriety stemmed largely from his manipulations of America’s financial markets, the legend of Jay Gould actually began in the wilderness of northeastern Pennsylvania.In few individuals’ careers has legend so readily mingled with fact. Jay Gould’s infa...

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

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

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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 proposed that the Earth constantly cycled through disrepair and renewal. Exposed rocks and soil were eroded, and formed new sediments that were buried and turned into rock by heat and pressure. That rock eventually uplifted and eroded again, a cycle that continued uninterrupted....

Revisiting the contributions of Paul Broca to the study of aphasia

Revisiting the contributions of Paul Broca to the study of aphasia

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There are few iconic publications in the annals of clinical neuroscience that have had the impact of Paul Broca's 1861 paper that appeared in the Bulletin de la Société Anatomique Broca (Bulletin Society Anatomique, 6:330-357, 1861). It was, however, by no means his last word on the matter of language localization, specifically, or on the overarching principle of regional specialization of brain function. Thus we comment on English translations of two of his works: the original paper and another from 1865. Although the 1861 paper has received the most credit, his manuscript 4 ye...

The Canonizer De-Canonized: The Case of William H. Prescott

The Canonizer De-Canonized: The Case of William H. Prescott

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No Hispanist was more instrumental in defining the field of Latin American Colonial Studies than William H. Prescott (1796-1859). His histories, most notably the History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843), were bestselling works which informed the U.S. public about Latin American antiquity during the "Manifest Destiny" period of mid-century. Despite Prescott's outspoken criticism of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, the historian has often been situated in recent scholarship as a "cause" of U.S. imperialism. Such a view is counterproductive, inasmuch as it diverts critical atte...

The Legend of Jay Gould

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

Revisiting the contributions of Paul Broca to the study of aphasia

The Canonizer De-Canonized: The Case of William H. Prescott

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Paracelsus: Herald of Modern Toxicology

Medicine

Paracelsus: Herald of Modern Toxicology

Paracelsus, Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, the “father of chemistry and the reformer of materia medica,” the “Luther of Medicine,” the “godfather of modern chemotherapy,” the founder of medicinal chemistry, the founder of modern toxicology, a contemporary of Leonardo da ...

Mark Twain and the Shaping of American Literature

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Mark Twain and the Shaping of American Literature

Although he was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he’ll be forever known as the quintessential American writer Mark Twain. Raised in Hannibal, Missouri, Twain began his literary aspirations as a modest young journalist for his local newspaper. But it was his quick wit and brilliantly ambitious use o...

Jean-Victor Moreau and His Exile in America

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Jean-Victor Moreau and His Exile in America

Jean-Victor Moreau was exiled to America after Napoleon Bonaparte banished him to the United States. Moreau, who was a friend to Madame Récamier and Madame de Staël, had served as a general under Napoleon and had helped him gain power. However, Moreau’s alleged involvement in a plot against Napol...