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Philip Sandblom
Philip Sandblom (October 29, 1903 – February 21, 2001) was a Sweden, Swedish academician, professor of surgery and sailor who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He served as Rector (academia), rector of Lund University between 1957 and 1968. Philip Sandblom was the son of the dentist John Sandblom, and was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States; like his father, he was also a prominent sailor in his youth. At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, he was a crew member of the Swedish boat ''Sylvia'' together with his father which won the bronze medal in the 8 metre class. Sandblom graduated from the Karolinska Institute with the dissertation ''The tensile strength of healing wounds'' in 1944. In 1950, Sandblom was made professor of surgery at Lund University, and he later served as rector of the University in 1957–1968. One of Sandblom authored books was Creativity and Disease: How illness affects literature, art and music (1992). After retiring from Lund Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
300-Jahr-Feier Der Christian-Albrechts-Universität (CAU) (Kiel 35
3 (three) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic numerals, Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
