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by David Edgerton, who writes of Bronowski's BBC documentary: "Lavishly produced and visually stunning, it impressed viewers with its lucidity and with the power of the presenter’s personality. Many who saw it still remember it as a landmark in television." He is critical overall of Bronowski: "His
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people and turn them into numbers. That is false - tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done
248:(18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He was known to friends and professional colleagues alike by the nickname Bruno. He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to science, and as the presenter and writer of the thirteen-part 1973 496:'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 in order to discriminate them from the teeth of apes. Work on this turned his interests towards the biology of humanity's intellectual products. 40: 615:
was one of the most memorable parts of any interview he had done. After he had completed the last episode of his show, Parkinson stated: "If I could save one interview from the thousands I have done, it would be the one-man show with Professor Jacob Bronowski."
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by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality - this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods.
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magazine wrote of Bronowski's TV documentary: "His passion guided his eloquence as if hoping to make the viewer just as interested as he was. Neither was his tone patronising or overly simplified.""
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The documentary was described as "a landmark in television" and "lavishly produced and visually stunning, it impressed viewers with its lucidity and with the power of the presenter’s personality".
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and chose as his subject the role of imagination and symbolic language in the progress of scientific knowledge. Transcripts of the lectures were published posthumously in 1978 as
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Following his experiences of the after-effects of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, he discontinued his work for British military research and turned to
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Bronowski is best remembered for this 13-part series about the history of human life and scientific endeavour. This project was commissioned by
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placed him under surveillance, believing he was a security risk, which may have restricted his access to senior posts in the UK.
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In 1970, John Cleese says "I'm not Doctor bloody Bronowski!" in the Monty Python sketch, "Exploding Penguin on the TV Set".
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launched The Jacob Bronowski Award Lecture at the British Science Festival in September, launched in partnership with the
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to Germany and then to England in 1920, when he was 12 years old. He won a scholarship to study mathematics at the
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Not Merely the Finest TV Documentary Series Ever Made: A reflection on Jacob Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man”
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The Effects of the Atomic Bombs Dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Report of the British Mission to Japan
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Report of the British Mission to Japan: the Effects of the Atomic Bombs Dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Bronowski married Rita Coblentz in 1941. The couple had four daughters, the eldest being the academic
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analysis of the relationship between science, the military and power was persistently disingenuous."
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and remain in print. He first became familiar to the British public through appearances on the
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for the purpose of studying the effects of the atomic bomb and its implications for future UK
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for about the last year of the scientist's life. Szilard, who died in mid-1964, had authored
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Swetz, Frank J. (March 1985). "Mathematics: A Vehicle for Better Global Understanding".
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He was widely regarded as "one of the most revered intellectuals on the global stage."
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was first televised, and his ashes were buried in the western side of London's
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At the end of the war, Bronowski was part of a British team of scientists and
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The ascent of Jacob Bronowski: the life and ideas of a popular science icon
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The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon
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Jacob Bronowski: a humanist intellectual for an atomic age, 1946–1956
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In 2012, Bronowski's links to the City of Hull were honoured with a
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while at Cambridge and composing numerous chess problems for the
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The Visionary Eye: Essays in the Arts, Literature and Science
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later recounted that Bronowski's description of his visit to
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and worked to increase the effectiveness of Allied bombing.
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Nature and Knowledge: The Philosophy of Contemporary Science
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Polish-born British mathematician and historian (1908–1974)
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The Western Intellectual Tradition, From Leonardo to Hegel
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Jacob Bronowski was born to a Polish-Jewish family in
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in the UK. From 1963 he was a resident fellow of the
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No. 262. 23 November 1961. p. 483. 468: 1160: 601:, Bronowski was interviewed on the chat show 1893:Salk Institute for Biological Studies people 1653:(includes biography, pictures and obituary). 1378:website (n.d., reprint of contemporary item) 654:Bronowski died in 1974 of a heart attack in 485:in the UK, and an associate director of the 378:between 1926 and 1970. He received a PhD in 499: 320: 1307: 1305: 38: 1667:Hicks, Stephen R. C. (13 November 2019). 1596:Bronowski, Jacob; Blake, William (1972). 1570: 1473: 1330: 1266: 1212: 1197: 959: 631:He spent time interviewing the physicist 451:atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 309:in San Diego, until his death in 1974 in 1520: 1171: 881:The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination 755: 514:The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination 413: 386:. For a time in the 1930s he lived near 345:and went on to study mathematics at the 1645:MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive 1598:William Blake and the age of revolution 1525:. 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East Hampton, New York
Highgate Cemetery
Jesus College, Cambridge
The Ascent of Man
Lisa Jardine
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Mathematics
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biology
history of science
geometry
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documentary
The Ascent of Man
Congress Poland
University of Cambridge
Humanism
University College Hull
World War II
operations research
UNESCO

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