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Biographies

Joseph Babinski: biography of this famous neurologist

Neurology is one of the most recent sciences. The first scientific investigations to address the ...

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Jacques Derrida: biography of this French philosopher

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was a French philosopher, recognized as one of the most influential o...

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Mary Whiton Calkins: biography of this psychologist and philosopher

Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930) was an American philosopher and psychologist, a pioneer in experi...

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Max Horkheimer: biography of this German philosopher

Max Horkheimer was a German philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist known for having been acti...

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Susan Fiske: biography of this social psychologist

Not many women psychologists have received due attention, and it could be said that Susan Fiske i...

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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: biography of this Swiss educator

Throughout history there have been different people who have made important contributions in the ...

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Marco Polo: biography of this traveler of the Middle Ages

Marco Polo: biography of this traveler of the Middle Ages

He was not the only medieval traveler to leave written testimony of his travels. It had already b...

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Hannah Arendt: biography of this German thinker, fleeing Nazism

Arendt is a key figure for philosophy at a time when the entire world was in upheaval due to Worl...

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Richard Lewontin: biography of this biologist

Richard Lewontin is known within his field, evolutionary biology, as a controversial figure. He i...

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Bertrand Russell: biography of this philosopher and logician

There is a small number of authors in this world whose contributions transcended beyond their own...

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Stephen Jay Gould: biography of this paleontologist and evolutionary biologist

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and historian of science...

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Karl Pearson: biography of this mathematician and biostatistician

Karl Pearson has been one of the most important statesmen, despite the fact that at first he did ...

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