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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.John Barth ...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking equipment. March 31, 2024Updated 4...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Pascal, the programming language he created in the early days of personal computing, offered a simpler alternative to other languages in use at the time.Nikla...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.His New York Times scoop enraged the Nixon White House, which ordered a tap on his phone. He later won a Pulitzer Prize for The Boston Globe.William Beecher i...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A former gas station owner, he was learning to read the Bible in its original languages when he changed course and started what became an artisanal-grains pow...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Used by engineers for centuries, they were displaced by pocket calculators and all but forgotten until Mr. Shawlee created a subculture of obsessives and corn...

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New York TimesThe Great ReadWithin a day of the death of Matthew Sachman, 19, on New York City subway tracks, so-called obituary pirates had fl...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTHis 1964 discovery with Robert W. Wilson settled a debate over the origin and evolution of the universe.Dr. Arno A. Penzias in a 1991 photo at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. He and Dr. Robert W. Wilson were researchers there in 1964 when they discovered cosmic microwave background radiation, remn...

For more than half a century, in works like the “Unbegun” Symphony and “Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons,” Peter Schickele’s creation, the fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach, remained enduringly, fiendishly alive.Credit...Peter SchaafHe wrote more than 100 symphonic, choral, solo instrumental and chamber...