A classic (and proof of the theory of forgotten people), though many will not realise this now, is how and when we’ve remembered Alan Turing. Many of us know of him and this ‘story’ now- inventor of the computer, secret war-hero, persecuted by the state, died young by his own hand. Looks like Benedict Cumberbatch…Equally, he also has another forgotten history in biology coining one of our most famous terms (morphogen), and writing a (forgotten then rediscovered) paper on embryonic pattern formation. He has been forgotten, rediscovered but is only partially remembered.
A classic (and proof of the theory of forgotten people), though many will not realise this now, is how and when we’ve remembered Alan Turing. Many of us know of him and this ‘story’ now- inventor of the computer, secret war-hero, persecuted by the state, died young by his own hand. Looks like Benedict Cumberbatch…Equally, he also has another forgotten history in biology coining one of our most famous terms (morphogen), and writing a (forgotten then rediscovered) paper on embryonic pattern formation. He has been forgotten, rediscovered but is only partially remembered.
Oh wow, I didn't know any of that! But yes, I suppose history is just inevitably a process of forgetting and remembering.