The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension
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7 min readAug 5, 2014
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How a scientist you never heard of made String Theory possible.
Image credit: Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, at http://aether.lbl.gov/bccp/dimensions.html.
When he died on September 7, 2012, theoretical physicist Claud W. Lovelace left behind a house filled with parakeets. With no family or close companions, the eccentric Rutgers professor loved to be…
