Lucio Russo

Person · Open Library

Born

1944

Works

14

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1969-08-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

9

Total plays

38

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,202x

2. Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers

   · 2001 · cited 8,388x

3. Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Nonsquamous Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

   · 2015 · cited 7,897x

4. Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Squamous-Cell Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

   · 2015 · cited 7,001x

5. The<i>Gaia</i>mission

   · 2016 · cited 6,411x

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Quotes

• “About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. &hellip; One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.”
• “Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.”
• “Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.”
• “Euclid &hellip; manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.”
• “Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal &hellip; yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently.”
• “Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Lucio

Family name

Russo

Gender

male

Citizenship

Italy

Place of birth

Venice

Place of death

Bologna

Occupation

university teacher

Employer

Tor Vergata University of Rome

Languages spoken

Italian

Field of work

history of science

Image

LucioRusso-2.jpg

Work location

Rome

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