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Jean-Paul Sartre taught philosophy during the 1930s at La Havre and Paris. Captured by the Nazis while serving as an Army meteorologist, Sartre was a prisoner of war for …
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He was a Swiss-born philosopher, political theorist, author, and composer. He is considered one of the greatest figures of the French Enlightenment. Rousseau was one of the first modern …
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He was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following the 1958 satellite missions (Explorer 1 and Explorer …
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Hunt was a poet of charm and technical skill, who developed an interest in politics and poetry. He was an able translator and playwright, Leigh Hunt excelled as an …
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(Joanne “Jo” Rowling) is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies, …
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Newton was a physicist and the greatest English mathematician of his generation. He laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. His work on optics and gravitation make him …
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He was a Russian-born American author and biochemist. Asimov’s interest in science fiction had begun as a boy when he noticed several of the early science fiction magazines for …
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Kent was a German Prussian philosopher, generally regarded as the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment period, having a major impact on the Romantic and Idealist philosophies of the …
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He was the English author who began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that remains the most familiar part of his work. He …
