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Giorgio de Santillana
Born: May 30, 1902
Died: June 8, 1974 (aged 72)
Bio: Giorgio Diaz de Santillana was an Italian-American philosopher and historian of science, and Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Known for:
- Hamlet's Mill (1969)
- The crime of Galileo (1955)
- The origins of scientific thought (1961)