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Alfred North Whitehead

1861 to 1947 6 documented presences 6 places

Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Alfred North Whitehead across 6 places, from 1861 to 1947. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Alfred North Whitehead was documented, and when

1861year
Ramsgateattested “Alfred North Whitehead was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England, in 1861.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead
1910year
Londonattested “In 1910, Whitehead resigned his senior lectureship in mathematics at Trinity and moved to London without first obtaining another job.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead
1924year
Harvard Universityattested “In 1924, Henry Osborn Taylor invited the 63-year-old Whitehead to join the faculty at Harvard University as a professor of philosophy.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead
30 December 1947exact date
Cambridge, Massachusettsattested “Alfred retired from Harvard in 1937 and remained in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until his death on 30 December 1947.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead
30 December 1947exact date
Cambridgeattested “Alfred retired from Harvard in 1937 and remained in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until his death on 30 December 1947.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead
30 December 1947exact date
Harvardattested “Alfred retired from Harvard in 1937 and remained in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until his death on 30 December 1947.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead

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Places Alfred North Whitehead is documented in

Cambridge1 presence · 1947Cambridge, Massachusetts1 presence · 1947Harvard1 presence · 1947Harvard University1 presence · 1924London1 presence · 1910
Ramsgate1 presence · 1861

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1890year
Francementioned “In 1890, Whitehead married Evelyn Wade, an Irishwoman raised in France; they had a daughter, Jessie, and two sons, Thomas and Eric.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead
1910year
Marlborough, Wiltshirementioned “From 1910, the Whiteheads had a cottage in the village of Lockeridge, near Marlborough, Wiltshire; from there he completed Principia Mathematica.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead
1924year
United Statesmentioned “The Whiteheads remained in the United States after moving to Harvard in 1924.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead
1926year
American Philosophical Societymentioned “He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1926.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead
1931year
Harvard Business Schoolmentioned “Thomas followed his father to Harvard in 1931, to teach at the Business School.” source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead

Documented at the same place, the same year

Kurt LewinHarvard University · 1947Albert EinsteinAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences · 1924Paramahansa YoganandaAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences · 1924Richard E. ByrdAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences · 1924Iris MurdochCambridge · 1947Georg Henrik von WrightCambridge · 1947David RockefellerHarvard University · 1947Erwin PanofskyHarvard University · 1947Georg von BékésyHarvard University · 1947Qian XuesenHarvard University · 1947Léon BrillouinHarvard University · 1947Andrew WyethHarvard University · 1947

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