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Bertrand Russell — (1872-1969)
Philosopher, logician mathematician and social advocate. Bonr in Wales, 1872, Russell was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1910, he published the first volume of the acclaimed Principa Mathematica, cowritten with Alfred North Whitehead.
During World War I, Russell served four months in prison as a pacifist, where he wrote Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. After the war, he traveled extensively, and in 1927, he began a progressive school for young children with his wife in Sussess, which they ran until 1932.
Moving to the United states shortly before Word War II, Russell taught philosophy sat the University of Chicago and the University of California at Los Angeles. Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950.
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