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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Free Willy on March 20, 2018, 09:17:32 AM

Title: Well fancy that
Post by: Free Willy on March 20, 2018, 09:17:32 AM: Did you know Lawrence Krauss's academic genealogy of doctoral advisors goes all the way back to Italian doctor Fallopius through Oppenheimer, Born and Gauss?
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Post by: Maeght on March 20, 2018, 10:04:17 AM: What?
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Post by: Aruntraveller on March 20, 2018, 10:13:44 AM: Quote from: Maeght on March 20, 2018, 10:04:17 AM
What?

I echo this sentiment.
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Post by: ekim on March 20, 2018, 10:17:06 AM: As Michael Caine might say: 'Not a lot of people know that'.
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Post by: Free Willy on March 20, 2018, 10:36:43 AM: Sam Harris doctoral advisor himself did his thesis on the links between the pudendal nerve which apparently controls the anal sphincter and Lordosis which is curvature of the spine rather than pathological monotheism.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on March 20, 2018, 10:47:47 AM: I can see you are feeling funny. Quick get on stage before it wears off.
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Post by: Steve H on March 20, 2018, 02:09:07 PM: That'd be Dr Fallopius of the tube in the lady-bits, I take it.
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Post by: Free Willy on March 20, 2018, 02:21:16 PM: Quote from: Steve H on March 20, 2018, 02:09:07 PM
That'd be Dr Fallopius of the tube in the lady-bits, I take it.
Absolutely, Real name was Dr Fallopio but if you were a star in the academic firmament of back in the day you were recognised by the latinization of your name
hence Fallopius. So Richard Dawkins would be Dawkinsius.
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Post by: Anchorman on March 20, 2018, 02:24:25 PM: In one of his "Sacred Diaries", Adrian Plass mentions Paul's letter to the Fallopians.... Now, that's worth a rad......
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Post by: Free Willy on March 20, 2018, 02:29:28 PM: Quote from: Anchorman on March 20, 2018, 02:24:25 PM
In one of his "Sacred Diaries", Adrian Plass mentions Paul's letter to the Fallopians.... Now, that's worth a rad......
I think there is a ladies Rugby team who style themselves Old Fallopians.
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Post by: Nearly Sane on March 20, 2018, 02:33:51 PM: And used on Women's March poster

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/285697170088583313/
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Post by: Harrowby Hall on March 20, 2018, 02:54:23 PM: Quote from: Private Frazer on March 20, 2018, 09:17:32 AM
Did you know Lawrence Krauss's academic genealogy of doctoral advisors goes all the way back to Italian doctor Fallopius through Oppenheimer, Born and Gauss?

Presumably, Vlad, you find this surprising or something?
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Post by: Free Willy on March 20, 2018, 02:56:59 PM: Quote from: Harrowby Hall on March 20, 2018, 02:54:23 PM
Presumably, Vlad, you find this surprising or something?
It's highly impressive.
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Post by: Harrowby Hall on March 20, 2018, 04:50:30 PM: But until comparatively recently, Academia has been a fairly compact milieu. In the 16th and 17th centuries there were only a few centres of advanced learning and few individuals who would be considered pre-eminent.

It is hardly surprising that there are academic lineages of the kind that you describe.
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Post by: Steve H on March 20, 2018, 09:57:44 PM: It's a bit like the apostolic succession.