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Then there are the polymaths, restless and curious explorers who move between sectors and organizations.
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Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Quincy Jones, the musical polymath who contributed to remarkable albums in jazz, soul, and funk as well as several of the biggest pop LPs of the 20th century — most notably producing Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad albums — died at his home in Bel Air, California, on Sunday.
—Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
The wandering nerve was apparent to the first anatomists, notably Galen, the Greek polymath who lived until around the year 216.
—R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
Richard Ellis, a polymath of marine life whose paintings, books and museum installations — especially the life-size blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History in New York — revealed the beauty and wonders of the ocean, died on May 21 in Norwood, N.J.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 29 May 2024
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Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Quincy Jones, the musical polymath who contributed to remarkable albums in jazz, soul, and funk as well as several of the biggest pop LPs of the 20th century — most notably producing Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad albums — died at his home in Bel Air, California, on Sunday.
—Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
The wandering nerve was apparent to the first anatomists, notably Galen, the Greek polymath who lived until around the year 216.
—R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
Richard Ellis, a polymath of marine life whose paintings, books and museum installations — especially the life-size blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History in New York — revealed the beauty and wonders of the ocean, died on May 21 in Norwood, N.J.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 29 May 2024
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“Polymath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polymath. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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