Human Accomplishment

Sunday, November 8

Daily Six

Six lives worth meeting today, gathered from the long record of human accomplishment.

hang on Leopold Kronecker German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra (1823–1891) hang on Fausto Elhuyar Spanish chemist hang on Paul Hindemith German composer (1895–1963) hang on Louis-Nicolas Clérambault French composer and organist hang on Pyotr Kapitsa Soviet physicist hang on Paul Verlaine French poet (1844-1896)