Lodovico Dolce, Renaissance Man of Letters

Joseph J. Kaufman: renaissance man.

Joseph J. Kaufmanwas born inNewHaven,Connecticut, on February 10, 1921 toKarl andTiny Kaufman. The family moved shortly thereafter to open a millinery shop in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a child of first-generation Jewish Romanians, his life in Blue Collar, Worcester, was challenging. Kaufman and his friends took turns “on patrol” whenwalking home from school to protect themselves from anti-Se...

Man and nature in the Renaissance

doubts. Such a revision, taking into account also the studies of Friedenwald and S. W. Baron, would still have great value. One disturbing feature of this reprint is its cavalier attitude to the classical languages. The Greek is transliterated in a modem Greek phonetic transcription, thereby making it almost unintelligible even to classicists, especially as printing and copying errors here abou...

Computer Scientist The 21st Century Renaissance Man

Since the Renaissance, figures like Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, to name but a few, have played a fundamental role in the development of our civilization. So much so that those exceptional human beings are part of the collective memory of humankind, and make guest appearances in everyday conversations amongst people who normally have little or no concern for art or scien...

Carl Djerassi: 'father of the pill' and renaissance man.

A Renaissance man: in memoriam of Jon Widom (1955-2011).

It was a complete shock to learn that Jon Widom had died of a massive heart attack on July 18, 2011 at the age of 55. I first met Jon back in 1990 when he was on the Faculty at the University of Illinois while I was looking for my first position in the States, and last saw him just a month before his death. Jon had not changed much during those twenty-plus years: he oozed wit, elegance and cool...