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Some famous characters: philosopher, statemen, explorers, etc. seem to have vanished from our memory.I'd like to start with Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize 1952, a kind of polymath : musician, theologist, philosopher, deacon and MD doctor.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1952/schweitzer-bio.html Schweitzer made the phrase "Reverence for Life" or "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben" the basic tenet of an ethical philosophy.In his book, translated into English by William Montgomery and published in 1910 as The Quest of the Historical Jesus, he showed that the image of Jesus had changed with the times and outlooks of the various authors, and gave his own synopsis and interpretation of the previous century's findings. He maintained that the life of Jesus must be interpreted in the light of Jesus' own convictions, which reflected late Jewish eschatology.
It seemed as if every other week on M.A.S.H. you'd hear the line: “Who do you think you are, Albert Schweitzer?”His granddaughter, Dr. Christiane Engel, carries on work with his foundation and gives piano concerts, mostly Mozart and Bach, all over the world. CDs available on Amazon. She is married to my wife's 1st cousin.
Here are the very awaited Ig Nobel awards for 2013.Notice the Peace prize and the Psychology prize.Moreover: patents for modernizing the Roman thumbs-up or down decision (2005) and the Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (1965)http://www.improbable.com/
