I invented the chemical process by which a formerly expensive metal became commonplace. They erected this statue in my honor, cast in the metal I helped popularize. Who am I, and where is this statue?
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Jeffrey Shallit
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
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Jeffrey Shallit
American mathematician, professor of computer science at a major Canadian university, & skeptic.
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4 comments:
From the metal description, it sounds like Charles Martin Hall, joint inventor of the Hall-Heroult electrolytic process for refining Aluminium. If so, the statue is at Oberlin College in Ohio.
Charles Martin Hall, at Oberlin?
Exactly right, except we Yanks call it "aluminum".
And there was me thinking you were a paragon of common sense in the Anglo Saxon mould and a part of our great Commonwealth of liberal, rationalist, pro-science and evolution sensibilists.
And then you go and shatter my il(de?)lusions and confess to being of the "aluminum" fraternity of improper English speakers.
Sad really.
Still, a great blog nonetheless.
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