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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?

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