Editing Jacob Bronowski (section)

{{Short description|Polish-born British mathematician and historian (1908–1974)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Jacob Bronowski
| image = Bronowski.jpg
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1908|01|18}}
| birth_place = [[Łódź]], [[Congress Poland]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1974|08|22|1908|01|18}}
| death_place = [[East Hampton (town), New York|East Hampton, New York]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Highgate Cemetery]], London, England
| nationality = British
| field = [[Mathematics]], [[operations research]], [[biology]], [[history of science]], [[geometry]]
| work_institution = [[Salk Institute]]
| alma_mater = [[Jesus College, Cambridge]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[H. F. Baker]]
| known_for = ''[[The Ascent of Man]]''
| prizes = [[Senior Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|Senior wrangler]] ([[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]])
| spouse = {{marriage|Rita Coblentz|1941}}
| children = 4, including [[Lisa Jardine]]
}}

'''Jacob Bronowski''' (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to science, and as the presenter and writer of the thirteen-part 1973 [[BBC]] television [[documentary film|documentary]] series, and accompanying book, ''[[The Ascent of Man]].'' He was widely regarded as "one of the most revered intellectuals on the global stage."<ref>{{cite news|last=Radford|first= Tim|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/apr/15/ascent-man-jacob-bronowski-review |title=The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski - review|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=15 April 2011|access-date= 29 September 2018}}</ref>

Bronowski's family moved from [[Congress Poland]] to Germany and then to England in 1920, when he was 12 years old. He won a scholarship to study mathematics at the [[University of Cambridge]]. His interests have been described as ranging "widely, from biology to poetry and from chess to [[Humanism]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://humanistheritage.org.uk/articles/jacob-bronowski/ |title=Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974)|website= humanistheritage.org.uk|access-date= 29 September 2018}}</ref> He taught mathematics at [[University College Hull]] between 1934 and 1942. During [[World War II]] he led the field of [[operations research]] and worked to increase the effectiveness of Allied bombing. 

After the war Bronowski headed the projects division of [[UNESCO]]. He wrote poetry and had a deep affinity for [[William Blake]]. From 1950 to 1963 he worked for the [[National Coal Board]] in the UK. From 1963 he was a resident fellow of the [[Salk Institute for Biological Studies]] in San Diego, until his death in 1974 in [[East Hampton (town), New York|East Hampton, New York]], just a year after the airing of his ''Ascent of Man''.