Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970), Philosopher, mathematician and social reformerBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
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Grandson of the Liberal Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, Earl (Lord John) Russell, Bertrand made significant contributions to logic, epistemology and mathematics that established him as one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century. He published his first work, An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (1897), at the age of 25. This was followed by The Principles of Mathematics (1903) and Principia Mathematica (1910-13). A pacifist during the First World War, he was imprisoned in 1918. Russell gave the first Reith lectures on radio in 1949. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, and became the first President of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in 1958.
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Related People
- Katherine Louisa (née Stanley), Viscountess Amberley (mother)
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (grandfather)
- Patricia Helen ('Peter') (née Spence), Countess Russell (wife)
- Edith (née Finch), Countess Russell (wife)
- John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell (son)
- Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell (son)
- Alys Whitall Russell (née Pearsall Smith) (wife)
- Dora Winifred Russell (née Black) (wife)
- Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (grandfather)
- Henrietta Maria Stanley (née Dillon-Lee), Lady Stanley of Alderley (grandmother)
- Lady Katharine Jane Tait (née Russell) (daughter)
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