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Samuel Reshevsky

A Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster.

R. J. Hollingdale

A British biographer and translator of German philosophy and literature, especially the works of ...

Richard G. Rosner

Richard G. Rosner

Is a writer and a TV personality from the US with an IQ of 192

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Ancient Greek philosopher

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Charles Glover Barkla

A British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917

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Wilder Penfield

An American-Canadian neurosurgeon whose works covered the fields of hallucinations, illusions, an...

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The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature

The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature

blogs.scientificamerican.com

Editor's Note: We are republishing this article by Paul Dirac from the May 1963 issue of Scientific American, as it might be of interest to listeners to the June 24, 2010, and June 25, 2010 Science Talk podcasts, featuring award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo discussing The Strangest Man, his biography of the Nobel Prize-winning British theoretical physicist.In this article I should like to discuss the development of general physical theory: how it developed in the past and how one may expect it to develop in the future. One can look on this continual development as a pr...

Inside the mind of Jaxon Cota an 11-year-old kid genius

Inside the mind of Jaxon Cota an 11-year-old kid genius

The phrase ‘genius’ gets thrown around a lot these days and ahhh, what we would do to be considered a genius! Unfortunately, our intelligence and natural ability stops after the 3rd decimal of Pi – although we are exceptionally skilled in eating a yummy apple tart.Throughout history, there have been obvious geniuses who have changed the course of the world. There was Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity. There was Michelangelo with his Sistine Chapel. There was Rene Descartes and his modern philosophy. And there was Leonardo Da Vinci and his renaissance inventions.Howe...

The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop

The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop

Fifteen years ago, the rock critic Robert Christgau published a survey-of-the-literature essay called “In Search of Jim Crow: Why Postmodern Minstrelsy Studies Matter,” in The Believer. The essay, which is collected in “Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading,” gleans findings and arguments from academic sources and translates a takeaway for a hip general audience. Minstrelsy was a horrifically racist enterprise, founded upon white-from-black appropriation; it also stands as a launching pad for the entire tangled, rotten, potentially liberating history of American ...

The Future With, or Without, Tom Stoppard

The Future With, or Without, Tom Stoppard

At 83, Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as the English-speaking world’s greatest living playwright. Yet his three-dozen-odd plays elude easy categorization, and it is a further puzzlement that a writer notorious for trafficking in abstruse intellectual concepts should have won popularity on both sides of the Atlantic.At first glance, he would appear to be a practitioner of what used to be called the “theater of ideas,” but such writers are usually issue-driven propagandists like Ibsen and Shaw. Not so Stoppard. A passionate anti-utopian, his only “cause” is unswerving opposition ...

The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature

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Oliver Cromwell, the man who wouldn’t be king

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Oliver Cromwell, the man who wouldn’t be king

As readers of 1066 and All That will recall, Oliver Cromwell and his supporters were “Right but Repulsive”. But both adjectives may be questioned by readers of Paul Lay’s Providence Lost, a spirited and vivid survey of the brief period in which Cromwell held the dangerously ill-defi...

Rudolf Virchow and the scientific approach to medicine

Medicine

Rudolf Virchow and the scientific approach to medicine

Rudolf Virchow proceeded to rebuild pathology by stating a physiological definition of disease and by introducing the cell theory. To him, disease is a phenomenon of life and must be studied in relation to life processes. He therefore undertook researches in pathological physiology which he hoped...

The Uncertain Heavens Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life

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The Uncertain Heavens Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life

During the 17th century, as knowledge of the Universe and its contents increased, so did speculation about life on other planets. One such source, as Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores, was Dutch astronomer, mathematician, and inventor Christiaan Huygens, whose earlier work on probability paved the ...