| About David Gaus | ||||||||||||||
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| David Gaus has been listed in five of the last eight editions of Marquis Who�s Who in America. He was also listed in Outstanding People of the 20th Century, a publication of the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England. In 1983 a movie, Doctor Detroit, based on his persona was shot in Chicago by Universal. He has also been made fun of two or three times on Saturday Night Live. Click for a web article about Doctor Detroit. |
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| � Click here for publications and scientific output � Editor of Shortridge Daily Echo (high school) 1959. � Varsity letter in wrestling, University of Chicago, 1964. � BA, Zoology, University of Chicago, 1964. � MA, Biology, Northwestern 1965. � Peace Corps service, Nigeria, 1965-67. � Additional graduate work (immunology, mathematical biology) at Columbia University and the University of Washington in Seattle, 1968-70. � CEO, DS Gaus Corporation. (IN) 1983- |
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| Gaus is a distant relation of Karl Friedrich Gauss, who helped develop the telegraph and who is regarded as the third-greatest mathematician in history. Click here for a web article about Karl Friedrich Gauss |
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| David Gaus's great-grandfather, Charles Friedrich Gaus, lived in Anderson, Indiana, and played a key role in constructing the first wire-nail machine in the United States. That was about 1900. The wire nail is the kind of nail now in common use. | ||||||||||||||
| "I'm a Christian Deist. In my veiw, the current debate between intelligent design and evolution is out of date. The supposed conflict between science and religion isn't an issue with me. The existence of God seems to have been proved by Kurt Godel, who was one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. "So here I am on Monument Circle in Indianapolis chatting about such matters with midday pedestrians and having this picture taken by the talented photographer, Mr. John Fleck." |
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