Immanuel Velikovsky
Immanuel Velikovsky · Arts & Literature
Author of Worlds in Collision; controversial catastrophist theories
1895, Vitebsk, Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) — 1979, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Russia, Palestine and the United States
Immanuel Velikovsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author of Worlds in Collision; controversial catastrophist theories
Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-born Jewish physician and author, best known for his 1950 bestseller Worlds in Collision, which proposed catastrophist theories of planetary near-collisions in ancient times. His ideas were rejected by mainstream science but sparked major public debate about knowledge and orthodoxy. Earlier he had trained in medicine and psychoanalysis and helped plan the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Author of Worlds in Collision; controversial catastrophist theories
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