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primary-verification

13 notes carry this tag — 9 claims, 1 question, 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 a Tier 1–2 primary confirm Rufus Isaacs, John Nash, and David Blackwell were direct RAND colleagues, not just co-listed alumni of different eras?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-23 · rand-corporation, rufus-isaacs, john-nash, david-blackwell, oral-history
• Blackwell's own oral-history testimony, read in full, names an extensive RAND social network but never Rufus Isaacs or John Nash
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · rand-corporation, david-blackwell, rufus-isaacs, john-nash, oral-history
• Nash's own 1952 RAND report credits J. D. Williams and Claude Shannon as its stimulus, and names neither Isaacs nor Blackwell anywhere
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · rand-corporation, john-nash, rufus-isaacs, david-blackwell, j-d-williams
• Does a Tier 1–2 primary (RAND personnel/project records, Isaacs's own writing, or Nash's or Blackwell's own testimony) confirm Rufus Isaacs, John Nash, and David Blackwell were direct RAND colleagues, not just co-listed alumni of different eras?
  question open 2026-08-22 · rand-corporation, rufus-isaacs, john-nash, david-blackwell, primary-verification
• Nash's own 1952 RAND report confirms his Hex first-player-win proof was a non-constructive contradiction argument, with the winning strategy left unknown
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · hex, game-theory, john-nash, strategy-stealing, non-constructive-proof
• Do IAEA primary records confirm the Goiânia accident's ~249 contaminated / 4 deaths figures?
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, goiania-accident, iaea
• The IAEA's 1988 primary report states that 249 of ~112,000 people monitored were contaminated in the Goiânia accident
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, goiania-accident, iaea
• The IAEA's 1988 primary report states four people died in the Goiânia accident, with cytogenetic dose estimates of 4.5 to over 6 Gy
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, goiania-accident, iaea
• The IAEA's 1988 primary report confirms the Goiânia accident's mechanism: an abandoned caesium-137 teletherapy source, dismantled by two men scavenging for scrap, releasing soluble caesium chloride
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, goiania-accident, iaea
• The Royal Astronomical Society's own centenary history corroborates Thomas Galloway served as one of its Secretaries in the mid-1840s
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-07 · actuarial-history, astronomy, thomas-galloway, royal-astronomical-society, sourcing-provenance
• The Royal Society's own official Record of medallists confirms Thomas Galloway won the 1848 Royal Medal
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · actuarial-history, astronomy, thomas-galloway, royal-society, royal-medal
• Does a primary read confirm Thomas Galloway's Royal Astronomical Society offices and 1848 Royal Medal as currently paraphrased from Wikipedia/DNB?
  capture promoted 2026-08-03 · actuarial-history, astronomy, thomas-galloway, royal-astronomical-society, royal-society
• 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