He dictated a mathematical paper a week while blind, with a child on his knee and a cat on his shoulders. When two students disagreed at the fiftieth decimal place, he ran the sum in his head. Frederick the Great called Leonhard Euler his Cyclops.
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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- A second-hand copy of Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in #EvolutionaryBiology? from @themitpress, an edited volume in their highly-regarded Vienna Series in #TheoreticalBiology.
- Among the Giants: A Year at Kew's #Arboretum by Carolyn Fry and Christina Harrison, published by Gaia Books.
- A second-hand copy of a classic from 1959: Bentley et al.'s Forerunners of #Darwin, 1745-1859, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.#Books #Bookstodon #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Trees #Plants #Botany #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon
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Miles from the Soho cholera outbreak of 1854, the only death in Hampstead was a widow who had loved the water at a Broad Street pump so much she had it carted up daily. She was Susannah Eley, the pump's furthest victim.
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DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is currently just £12.50 - with FREE UK postage - in my publisher's annual half-price sale! 🏳️🌈 📚 :transgender: 🎁
👉 https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🦋 🎅
#Book #Books #Reading #Darwin #Science #Nature #STS #History #HistSci #QueerHistory #Queer #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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On Tuesday I have ten minutes to discuss my work on Richard Jennings (1814-1891) at this exciting event. I need to practice brevity! Let’s see what I can fit in ten posts.
#histecon #histsci
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He tiled the beds, the flower pots, the carriage clock, the radio, his wife's sewing machine. Over 24 years he used fifteen tonnes of broken crockery. When Raymond Isidore finally stopped in 1962, there was nothing left in his house to cover.
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The 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to her “in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium & polonium, by the isolation of radium & the study of the nature & compounds of this remarkable element.”
Her life and legacy are truly extraordinary!
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Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934, Polish-born, naturalized-French #physicist & #chemist at work in her lab. The contents of her lab glassware appropriately glow-in-the-dark!
Marie Curie was the 1st woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to ever win TWO Nobel prizes, and the only person ever to win in two different sciences: #physics & #chemistry! She was also the 1st woman prof at the U of Paris, and in 1995 became 🧵1/
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Happy birthday to #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) who explained #nuclear #fission. She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, investigating whether there were any stable elements beyond uranium. They discovered bombarding nucleus of U-235 with neutrons actually triggered it to fission, or break, into 2 nuclei of roughly half the size & some free neutrons! 🧵1/
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Today it is 113 years since the death of #AlfredRusselWallace. Read all about this remarkable naturalist in Jim Costa's biography, Radical by Nature:
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @princetonupress @princetonnature