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Historical Honorary Members
NOTE: These are the earliest Historical Honorary Members. The others can be found, paradoxically, in our new members section.
MENDELEYEV -- Historical Honorary Member
Dimitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, LFHCfS
"A man of many interests, liberal and enterprising. Nice hair. Died 1907."
<Dimitry Mendeleyev>
(Submitted by Martin D'Ambrosio)
CRUZ -- Historical Honorary Member
Oswaldo Cruz, LFHCfS
"Tireless worker for public health, reduction of disease, etc. Nice hair. Died 1917."
<http://www.lileks.com/money/brazil/24.html>
(Submitted by Gwen Barnes)
EINSTEIN -- Historical Honorary Member
Albert Einstein, LFHCfS
"Physicist. Bon vivant. A bold experimentalist with hair. Died 1955."
<http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physpiceinstein.html>
(Submitted by Janie Thomas)
FEYNMAN -- Historical Honorary Member
Richard Feynman, LFHCfS
"I nominate Feynman (1918-1988), for LFHCfS. Surely, he would have liked it."
<http://aries.phys.yorku.ca/~bartel/GPBmovie/feynman.jpg>
(Submitted by R.M. Mentock)
FRANKLIN -- Historical Honorary Member
Benjamin Franklin, LFHCfS
"The club would be incomplete without Ben Franklin (1706-1790), one of history's greatest scientists. And unlike certain other celebrated scientists with long hair, Ben's was all natural, not some fancy wig."
<http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brush/ben.htm>
(Submitted by Jacqueline Holmes)
NEWTON -- Historical Honorary Member
Isaac Newton, LFHCfS
"I would like to nominate Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- arguably history's greatest physicist, the inventor of the calculus, and hair like a rock star."
<http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/media/newton-body.html>
(Submitted by George Haley)
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