Hardy Littlewood Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Good mentions at The man who loved numbers, notably youtu.be/PqP2c5xNaTU?t=349 where Bela Bollobas, friend of Littlewood, talks about their collaboration.
Francis Crick and James Watson Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Some good mentions of their dynamic duo status at The Race for the Double Helix. Their chemistry and love are palpable during their joint interviews.
Very clearly, Francis is the charismatic one, and James is the nerd.
Dynamic duo Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Nuclear strategy Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Pieter van Musschenbroek Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Alberto Fermi Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Enrico Fermi's father.
Leyden jar Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Pieter van Musschenbroek is the perfect example that if your surname is too complicated, things you invent will not be named after you!
The man who loved numbers (Nova episode) Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Michael Faraday Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
The Race for the Double Helix (Nova) Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Nova episode Created 2024-11-30 Updated 2025-07-16
Good ones:
- Moving Still (1980); development of film technology
- Race for the Superconductor (1988): recounts the feeding frenzy for high-temperature superconductivity after the Swiss found a ceramic superconductor.
- The Proof (1997): Fermat's last theorem
- Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold (2008): cryogenics
De-banking should be illegal Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Courts of law should decide if your money is legal or not. Not private entities such as banks. This is actually a case for cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies.
Ciro Santilli had a fun mini-case of this with his Barclays account frozen for a few days in 2024 in the UK after receiving a large anonymous cryptocurrency donatio: Barclays regulation.
GTK Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16
De-banking Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Sreenarayanaguru Open University Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Not affiliated to the Open University apparently. But equally unopen which is funny.
Moving Still (NOVA) Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16
History of photography Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16
WikiPathways Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16
ORCID Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Nobel Prize winner without a PhD Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Notably in STEM, not so interested in literature of course:
Here's a SPARQL sketch for Wikidata that can be run at query.wikidata.org/. It gathers all the relevant data, but TODO we don't know how to do the proper query yet:
# List of living Nobel Laureates sorted by date of birth
SELECT DISTINCT ?recipient ?recipientLabel $birthDate ?awardLabel ?nobelDate ?educatedAtLabel ?academicDegree ?academicDegreeLabel ?doctorateDate
WHERE {
?recipient wdt:P31 wd:Q5 ; # recepient is human (Peace prize can go to organizations)
wdt:P569 ?birthDate ;
p:P166 ?awardStat . # recepient was awarded something
?awardStat ps:P166 ?award .
?award wdt:P279* wd:Q7191 . # received any subclass of nobel prize (physics, chemistry, etc.)
?awardStat pq:P585 ?nobelDate .
?recipient p:P69 ?recipientEducatedAt .
?recipientEducatedAt ps:P69 ?educatedAt .
?recipientEducatedAt pq:P512 ?academicDegree .
?academicDegree wdt:P279* wd:Q849697 .
OPTIONAL{ ?recipientEducatedAt pq:P582 ?doctorateDate . }
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }
}
ORDER BY ASC(?birthDate) ASC(?nobelDate) ASC(?awardLabel) There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.