Enrico Fermi's father.
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) by 
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The Race for the Double Helix (Nova) by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-06-02 +Created 2024-11-30
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-06-02 +Created 2024-11-30Good 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
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.
Not affiliated to the Open University apparently. But equally unopen which is funny.
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) 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-06-02 +Created 2024-11-26
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