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• ...that Hans Gude (pictured) replaced Johann Schirmer as the professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf school, even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?
• ...that Carl Størmer, "the acknowledged authority" on aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the magnetosphere, began his academic career inventing formulae for π?
• ...that Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from Hans Gude because she was a woman?

Source

1. 23 March 2008, Main Page appearance.
2. 28 March 2008, Main Page appearance.
3. 29 March 2008, Main Page appearance.