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Wolfgang Pauli

An Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics.

Parimarjan Negi

An Indian chess grandmaster who achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, ...

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Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers

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Susumu Tonegawa

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Nicolas Chamfort

French writer, best known for his epigrams and aphorisms.

Selman Waksman

Russian Empire-born Jewish-American inventor, biochemist, and microbiologist whose research led t...

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Chess Prodigy Aryan Chopra Becomes an IM at 13. Here Are 8 Things You Should Know About Him

Chess Prodigy Aryan Chopra Becomes an IM at 13. Here Are 8 Things You Should Know About Him

thebetterindia.com

Aryan Chopra, a 13-year-old chess prodigy is making headlines by becoming India’s second youngest International Master (IM).The first youngest International Master from India was Parimarjan Negi who got this title at the age of 13 years and 4 months in July 2006. The IM title can be achieved once a player gets an Elo rating (a rating system to calculate the relative skill levels of players) between 2200 and 2500. Along with the rating, he/she should also fulfil some norms which are basically performance benchmarks observed during the competitions. U...

Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon : Hierarchical Socialism?

Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon : Hierarchical Socialism?

ideas.repec.org

This paper puts forward some reflections on the fundamental issues of Saint-Simon’s vision of future society and on the event of Crédit Mobilier, a case of actual application of the theory, judged by Marx as a new industrial feudalism; this in order to try to answer the question on how Saint-Simonism and socialism relate. The dialectical scheme of history and the rejection of free competitive market as the only institution to coordinate the economic agents can explain the admiration of Engels and the respect of Marx. On the other hand, Saint-Simon never claims for the real emanc...

Stanley Kubrick: film's obsessive genius rendered more human

Stanley Kubrick: film's obsessive genius rendered more human

theguardian.com

Twenty years after his death, Stanley Kubrick has never been more popular or visible, particularly in the country he called home for the last 37 years of his life. The BFI Southbank is dedicating a retrospective to his work, his best-known films – including 2001, Dr Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange – have been rereleased, and a touring exhibition drawn from his copious archives is arriving at London’s Design Museum, after stopovers in Frankfurt, Mexico City and Seoul.Entitled simply Stanley Kubrick: the Exhibition, it is testament to Kubrick’s talent for in-depth research, acquisit...

Where Are They Now: Shawn Fanning

Where Are They Now: Shawn Fanning

This is the second in a series of articles in which we'll catch up with newsmakers from the past decade. For other installments and more go to the WSJ.com 10th Anniversary page.Shawn Fanning has changed his tune.These days the young programmer who was catapulted into the spotlight when he created the controversial Napster file-swapping software prefers to avoid media coverage. He now devotes his time to a company that aims to help the recording industry (his former nemesis) curb the ongoing problem of online music piracy -- a problem he helped create. But his new project has g...

Chess Prodigy Aryan Chopra Becomes an IM at 13. Here Are 8 Things You Should Know About Him

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Great Works: Charles Guillaume Etienne: The Vain Man, 1832 (15.9cm high), Honoré Daumier

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Great Works: Charles Guillaume Etienne: The Vain Man, 1832 (15.9cm high), Honoré Daumier

Clay is desperately undervalued as a medium for art. Works by the greatest of ceramicists often command near derisory prices at the auction house. So it is easy to overlook a small work in clay, and especially when it is one among many ranged side by side on a shelf, production-line style, amid a...

Alfred M. Mayer and Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century America

Physics

Alfred M. Mayer and Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century America

Througout the nineteenth century, acoustics or the science of sound in America lagged behind European acoustics which had been rapidly advancing. During this period, the American physicist Alfred M. Mayer made original contributions to acoustics and earned a reputation in Europe, filling a gap in...

Walther Nernst: grandfather of dark energy?

Chemistry

Walther Nernst: grandfather of dark energy?

In a paper in this journal, Calder and Lahav (2008) suggested that a repulsive force corresponding to the cosmological constant Λ can be found as far back as in Newton's Principia. In their useful historical survey of the steps towards dark energy, they identified this form of energy with the cos...