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Description edit
Timothy Ferris, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee, is the author of nine books, including The Whole Shebang, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, and The Mind's Sky. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Thomas Jefferson
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- Kuhn
- Newton
- Charles Darwin
- Braun
- Chris
- De Soto
- James
- Malthus
- John Adams
- Joseph Priestley
- Boyle
- Sakharov
- Dirac
- Heidegger
- Herschel
- Lenin
- Bacon
- Thomas Paine
- Shaftesbury
- Korolyov
- Holland
- David Hume
- Leonardo
- Keynes
- Vavilov
- Stalin
- Muslim
- Hahn
- Terry
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- United States
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- Germany
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- Middle East
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- Sweden
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- Netherlands
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- Born
- Uranus
- Africa
- Moscow
- Peru
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- Japan
- Manchester
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- Manhattan Project
- Poland
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- Montesquieu
Authors & Contributors edit
- Timothy Ferris (Author)
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- Dewey: 303.483
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- Books › Nonfiction › Government › Democracy
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Political
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › History & Theory
- Books › Science › History & Philosophy
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