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01.12.2013 | Giants In Orthopaedic Surgery
Giants In Orthopaedic Surgery: Sterling Bunnell MD
verfasst von:
Stuart A. Green, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 12/2013
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Monumental innovations and discoveries often occur in far-off places. The advances of human history confirm this observation. Indeed, isolation from the epicenters of orthodoxy may be a prerequisite for originality. Albert Einstein redefined time and space while working in a Swiss patent office rather than at a university in Berlin, London, or Paris. Benjamin Franklin, a printer, clarified the nature of electricity, and invented the lightning rod in the wilds of early Philadelphia, an ocean away from the intellectual centers of Europe. …