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Jacob Bronowski was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to science, and as the presenter and writer of the thirteen-part 1973 BBC television documentary series, and accompanying book, The Ascent of Man. He was widely regarded as "one of the most revered intellectuals on the global stage."
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Born 18 January 1908 · Died 22 August 1974 · Q374117
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Timothy Sandefur's biography The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon, he describes Bronowski as more than a polymath, and that he "was involved with nearly every major intellectual und
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The British Science Association launched The Jacob Bronowski Award Lecture at the British Science Festival in September, launched in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum, to celebrate cutting-edge work at the
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Cambridge University Press published a critique, Jacob Bronowski: a humanist intellectual for an atomic age, 1946–1956, by the science historian Ralph Desmarais, who wrote: "Witnessing Hiroshima helped transform him from
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On the reissue of The Ascent of Man with a foreword by Richard Dawkins, Tim Radford in The Guardian described it "as compelling as ever"
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As The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination and remain in print
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Died 1974-08-22.
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In East Hampton, New York, just a year after the airing of his Ascent of Man
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“I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.”
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Of a heart attack in East Hampton, New York, a year after The Ascent of Man was first broadcast
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John Cleese says "I'm not Doctor bloody Bronowski
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Bronowski delivered the six Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale University and chose as his subject the role of imagination and symbolic language in the progress of scientific knowledge
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Career landmark: chief scientific officer (1950–1964).
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Bronowski was given the Taung Child's fossilised skull and asked to try, using his statistical skills, to combine a measure of the size of the skull's teeth with their shape to discriminate them from the teeth of apes
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Writing a dissertation in algebraic geometry
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Studied at Jesus College (1927–1933).
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Studied at Central Foundation Boys' School (1920–1927).
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Bronowski's parents having been married in Britain in the London house of his maternal grandfather in 1907
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Born 1908-01-18.
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