Alain de Botton

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Alain de Botton, writer, was born on 20 December 1969 in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the only son of financier Gilbert de Botton and his first wife, Jacqueline Burgauer. He has one sister named Miele. Alain spent the first twelve years of his life in Switzerland, where he learned to speak French and German. His family later moved to London, where he completed his education. He took a double starred first in history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1988-1990) and completed his masters deg

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5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,533x

2. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

   · 2007 · cited 30,797x

3. Classification of Surgical Complications

   · 2004 · cited 27,751x

4. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,659x

5. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

   · 2009 · cited 22,526x

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Quotes

• “Life is near-death experience.”
• “Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.”
• “It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.”
• “It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.”
• “There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.”
• “It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1969-12-20 ) 20 December 1969 (age 56) , Zürich , Switzerland

Occupation

Writer, speaker

Nationality

Swiss British

Alma mater

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ( BA ), King's College London ( MPhil ), Harvard University

Period

1993–present

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Official website

www.alaindebotton.com

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