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Alexander Gorodnitsky

Alexander Moiseevich Gorodnitsky is a well-known Soviet and Russian Jewish bard and poet. Professionally, he is a geologist and oceanographer. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciencesread more....read less...

Alexander Gordon (physician)

Alexander Gordon MA, MD was a Scottish obstetrician best known for clearly demonstrating the contagious nature of puerperal sepsis. By systematically recording details of all visits to women with the read more...condition, he concluded that it was spread from patient to patient by the attending midwife or doctor, and he published these findings in his 1795 paper "Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen". On the basis of these conclusions, he advised that the spread could be limited by fumigation of the clothing and burning of the bed linen used by women with the condition and by cleanliness of her medical and midwife attendants. He also recognised a connection between puerperal fever and erysipelas, a skin infection later shown to be caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes, the same organism that causes puerperal fever. His paper gave insights into the contagious nature of puerperal sepsis around half a century before the better-known publications of Ignaz Semmelweis and Oliver Wendell Holmes and some eighty years before the role of bacteria as infecting agents was clearly understood. Gordon's textbook The Practice of Physik gives valuable insights into medical practice in the later years of the Enlightenment. He advised that clinical decisions be based on personal observations and experience rather than ancient aphorisms.read less...

Alexander Gordon of Earlston

Alexander Gordon of Earlston (1650–1726) was a 17th-century Scottish gentleman. He was known as a Covenanter and was member of the United Societies network. He was involved in the early 1680s in fomread more...enting rebellion against the Crown in Scotland.read less...

Alexander Gordon Laing

Major Alexander Gordon Laing was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu, arriving there via the north-to-south route in August 1826. He was killed shortly after he departed Timburead more...ktu, some five weeks later.read less...

Alexander Georgievich, 7th Duke of Leuchtenberg

Alexander Georgievich, 7th Duke of Leuchtenberg, also known as Prince Alexander Georgievich Romanovsky or less commonly Alexander de Beauharnais, was the only son of George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke oread more...f Leuchtenberg by his first wife, Duchess Therese of Oldenburg. He was a descendant of Paul I of Russia through both of his parents.read less...

Alexander Görlach

Alexander Görlach is an academic journalist and entrepreneur. He was visiting scholar at the College of Harvard University, at Adams House, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow to Harvard's Center for Euread more...ropean Studies and fellow of the Harvard Divinity School. Görlach is currently a senior research associate at Cambridge University, at the Institute on Religion and International Studies. Prior to that he served at the Center for Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University as fellow. He is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009-2015. Today he publishes www.saveliberaldemocracy.com and serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche.read less...