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OverviewAI-generated
Nevil Shute was a British male author whose professional career spanned from 1926 to 1960. Born in 1899 and deceased in 1960, he wrote under the pseudonym Nevil Shute. His literary output includes works such as *in the wet*, *Pastoral*, *the legacy*, *Viimeisellä rannalla*, and *斑衣吹笛人*.
Shute’s writings have been recorded in various databases, with one source listing 203 works and another citing five. He is associated with the United Kingdom. Quotes attributed to him include statements regarding the limitations of differential equations in aeroplane design and the nature of human belief.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1899
- Died
- 1960
- Works
- 203
Top works
- 斑衣吹笛人
- Viimeisellä rannalla
- in the wet
- Pastoral
- the legacy
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 81
- Total plays
- 1,551
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Focus on Formative Feedback
· 2008 · cited 3,135x
- Demystifying computational thinking
· 2017 · cited 1,103x
- What Is Design Thinking and Why Is It Important?
· 2012 · cited 961x
- THE ASCENDING CHOLINERGIC RETICULAR SYSTEM: NEOCORTICAL, OLFACTORY AND SUBCORTICAL PROJECTIONS
· 1967 · cited 951x
- THE CHOLINERGIC LIMBIC SYSTEM: PROJECTIONS TO HIPPOCAMPAL FORMATION, MEDIAL CORTEX, NUCLEI OF THE ASCENDING CHOLINERGIC RETICULAR SYSTEM, AND THE SUBFORNICAL ORGAN AND SUPRA-OPTIC CREST
· 1967 · cited 800x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.”
- “He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.”
- “It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.”
- “" People believe what they want to believe."”
- “Environment has its effect on everybody, and for a time it had a numbing effect on him, preventing him from thinking clearly.”
- “His agitation was subsiding; already he was becoming aware that he had not got it in him to make these men believe that what he said was true. He had had so much of this in the past; he was accustomed to being right and being disbelieved on vital issues. It was what happened to him; other people could put across their convictions and win credence, but he had never been able to do that. Now it was happening again.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Nevil Shute Norway , ( 1899-01-17 ) 17 January 1899, Ealing , Middlesex, England
- Died
- 12 January 1960 (1960-01-12) (aged 60), Melbourne , Victoria, Australia
- Occupation
- Novelist aeronautical engineer
- Education
- Balliol College, Oxford
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or from fellow engineers that he was "not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nevil Shute” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.