“I never meant it very seriously. I meant it as a kind of enjoyable intellectual game, but it was taken seriously.”
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Isaiah Berlin
Sir Isaiah Berlin was a British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas.
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culture · British philosopher (1909–1997) · philosopher · historian · university teacher · diplomat · historian of ideas · sociologist · political scientist · also Isaiah Berlin, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin, Berlin
Born 6 June 1909 · Died 5 November 1997 · Q205162
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I am a Russian Jew from Riga, and all my years in England cannot change this. I love England, I have been well treated here, and I cherish many things about English life, but I am a Russian Jew; that is how I was born and that is who I will be to the end of my life.
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2026· 2 entries
“I am a Russian Jew from Riga, and all my years in England cannot change this. I love England, I have been well treated here, and I cherish many things about English life, but I am a Russian Jew; that is how I was born and that is who I will be to the end of my life.”
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Complement associated microvascular injury and thrombosis in the pathogenesis of severe COVID-19 infection: A report of five cases” in Translational Research — cited 1,836 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Efficacy of Larotrectinib in <i>TRK</i> Fusion–Positive Cancers in Adults and Children” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 2,600 times.
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2017· 2 entries
Published “Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive <i>k</i> -mer weighting and repeat separation” in Genome Research — cited 7,129 times.
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Published “Phase 3 Trial of <sup>177</sup> Lu-Dotatate for Midgut Neuroendocrine Tumors” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 3,002 times.
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2013· 2 entries
Published “SPIRIT 2013 explanation and elaboration: guidance for protocols of clinical trials” in BMJ — cited 4,803 times.
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Published “SPIRIT 2013 Statement: Defining Standard Protocol Items for Clinical Trials” in Annals of Internal Medicine — cited 5,979 times.
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2011· 1 entry
To promote the ideas and values of Sir Isaiah Berlin, in particular by organising an annual Isaiah Berlin day and lectures in his memory
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide” in ACS Nano — cited 11,459 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Published “Bevacizumab plus Irinotecan, Fluorouracil, and Leucovorin for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 8,532 times.
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1997· 9 entries
Died 1997-11-05.
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“Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.”
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“Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.”
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Berlin died in Oxford on 5 November 1997, aged 88.
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Published “The Risk of Cancer Associated with Specific Mutations of<i>BRCA1</i>and<i>BRCA2</i>among Ashkenazi Jews” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,772 times.
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“Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.”
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“The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.”
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“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance — these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.”
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“Os filósofos são adultos que insistem em fazer perguntas infantis.”
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1994· 1 entry
Received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of Toronto, for which occasion he prepared a "short credo" (as he called it in a letter to a friend), now known as "A Message to the Twenty-First Centur
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1991· 1 entry
Published “Publication bias in clinical research” in The Lancet — cited 2,359 times.
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Benjamin E. Lippincott Award (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Erasmus Prize (1983).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (1979).
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Awarded Jerusalem Prize (1979).
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1966· 2 entries
Of a new graduate college at Oxford University: Wolfson College
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Played a role in creating Wolfson College, Oxford, and became its founding president
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1959· 1 entry
And a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1975
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1958· 1 entry
As Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford
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1956· 1 entry
Berlin married Aline Elisabeth Yvonne Halban, née de Gunzbourg (1915–2014), the former wife of the nuclear physicist Hans von Halban, and a former winner of the ladies' golf championship of France
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1946· 1 entry
Knighted in 1957, and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1971
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1940· 2 entries
Presented a philosophical paper on other minds to a meeting attended by Ludwig Wittgenstein at Cambridge University
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Berlin took rest in Portugal for a few days
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1932· 1 entry
At the age of 23, Berlin was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford
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1928· 1 entry
Taking first-class honours in his final examinations and winning the John Locke Prize for his performance in the philosophy papers, in which he outscored A
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1921· 1 entry
His family moved to England, and he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-06-06.
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