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- Simonyi_Professorship_for_the_Public_Understanding_of_Science abstract "The Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science is a chair in the University of Oxford. The chair was established in 1995 for the ethologist Richard Dawkins by an endowment from Charles Simonyi. The aim of the Professorship is "to communicate science to the public without, in doing so, losing those elements of scholarship which constitute the essence of true understanding".In 2008, Dawkins retired and the Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy was elected to the chair.".
- Simonyi_Professorship_for_the_Public_Understanding_of_Science comment "The Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science is a chair in the University of Oxford. The chair was established in 1995 for the ethologist Richard Dawkins by an endowment from Charles Simonyi. The aim of the Professorship is "to communicate science to the public without, in doing so, losing those elements of scholarship which constitute the essence of true understanding".In 2008, Dawkins retired and the Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy was elected to the chair.".