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biography

24 notes carry this tag — 17 claims, 4 questions, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Does Marta Aleksandra Balinska's biography of Ludwik Rajchman corroborate or complicate the FBI-file finding on the 1957 SISS subpoena under Eastland?
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-09-15 · ludwik-rajchman, marta-balinska, mccarthyism, cold-war-science, unicef
• Marta Aleksandra Balinska, author of the standard Ludwik Rajchman biography, is his own great-granddaughter — a family memoir, not an arms-length account
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-15 · ludwik-rajchman, marta-balinska, biography, family-memoir, source-critique
• Song Jian's Moscow control-theory teacher was A.A. Fel'dbaum
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-30 · song-jian, feldbaum, cybernetics, control-theory, cold-war-science
• Greely's own 1886 primary memoir declines to detail or substantively deny the cannibalism charge, calling it "such a painful topic"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · arctic-exploration, greely-expedition, lady-franklin-bay-expedition, cannibalism, survival-cannibalism
• Thomas Galloway held office in the Royal Astronomical Society and won the Royal Society's 1848 Royal Medal, concurrent with his career as an actuary
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-28 · actuarial-history, astronomy, thomas-galloway, royal-astronomical-society, biography
• Can the Atheist Bible's existence and scale be confirmed independently of Suchanek's own page — and does it cite any knowledge-graph or epistemics literature?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-22 · biography, knowledge-graph, secular-humanism, verification, epistemics
• The Atheist Bible footnotes Suchanek's own 2025 VANESSA paper on verifying deductive reasoning chains, in the same passage discussing formal logic
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · biography, knowledge-graph, secular-humanism, epistemics
• No independent (third-party) confirmation of the Atheist Bible's existence or scale has surfaced despite a genuine search
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · biography, knowledge-graph, secular-humanism, verification
• The Atheist Bible's Truth chapter cites Judea Pearl, Diderik Batens, and Gregory Chaitin on causality, formal logic, and compression
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · biography, knowledge-graph, secular-humanism, epistemics
• Frank Hubbard and William Dowd founded a 1949 Boston workshop to rebuild harpsichords on historical rather than piano-derived principles
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-22 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• Wanda Landowska's Pleyel "Grand Modèle de Concert" is the exemplar instrument of the piano-frame harpsichord-revival paradigm
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-22 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• Frank Rosenblatt, who built the perceptron, died in a Chesapeake Bay boating accident on his 43rd birthday
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · rosenblatt, perceptron, connectionism, history-of-ml, biography
• Verify from primaries: NVIDIA's own statement that the Blackwell architecture is named for David Blackwell, and Blackwell's biographical firsts
  question answered 2026-07-12 · NVIDIA, GPU-naming, David-Blackwell, verification, biography
• Adolphus Greely, survivor of a catastrophic 1881–84 Arctic expedition, directed the US Weather Bureau from 1887 to 1891
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-11 · meteorology, institutions, military-history, weather-bureau, biography
• Polly Smith, a co-inventor of the sports bra, spent a decades-long parallel career as a Jim Henson Company costume designer
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · invention-history, biography, cross-domain-bridge, apparel, puppetry
• Do primary records substantiate the cannibalism rumors from Greely's 1881–84 Arctic expedition, beyond the secondary NPS summary?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · arctic, biography, weather-bureau, military-history, verification
• Luz Martínez-Miranda pursued a materials-physics career and a formal harpsichord-performance career in parallel
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-10 · biography, materials-science, musical-instruments, harpsichord, cross-domain-bridge
• YAGO knowledge-graph co-creator Fabian Suchanek also wrote a 700-page 'Atheist Bible'
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · biography, knowledge-graph, secular-humanism, side-project
• Henry Harpending, co-author of foundational bioarchaeology and human-evolution papers, became a documented race-science figure
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · scientific-racism, population-genetics, source-criticism, credibility-paradox, biography
• Mike Mansfield, who sponsored the 1969 Mansfield Amendment, later became the longest-serving US Ambassador to Japan (1977–1988)
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · mansfield-amendment, mike-mansfield, cold-war, science-policy, japan
• Fabian Suchanek, co-creator of the YAGO knowledge graph, also authored a freely-distributed 700-page 'Atheist Bible'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · biography, knowledge-graph, secular-humanism, side-project
• Are the race-science quotes SPLC attributes to Henry Harpending corroborated by primary recordings or transcripts?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · scientific-racism, biography, source-criticism, population-genetics
• Can the Atheist Bible's existence and scale be confirmed independently of Suchanek's own page — and does it cite any knowledge-graph or epistemics literature?
  question open 2026-07-09 · biography, knowledge-graph, secular-humanism, verification
• Linnainmaa says the reverse-mode idea came to him on a sunny afternoon in a Copenhagen park in 1970
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-06 · linnainmaa, griewank, history-of-computation, reverse-mode-ad, biography