Bertrand Russell Dies: Philosopher-Activist Silenced at 97
Bertrand Russell was jailed twice — once for opposing World War I, once for protesting nuclear weapons — and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in between. He published his first major work at twenty-eight and his last at ninety-six. The man who co-wrote Principia Mathematica also wrote a pamphlet called Why I Am Not a Christian that got him fired from City College of New York. He was ninety-seven when he died. Still writing.
February 2, 1970
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