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Boris Gessen

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Russian philosopher and physicist (1893-1936)

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Boris Mikhailovich Hessen, also Gessen, was a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's Principia which became foundational in historiography of science.

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Lived 1893 to 1936 · aged 43
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