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George Williams (11 de octubre de 1821, Somerset, Reino Unido - 6 de noviembre de 1905, Londres, Reino Unido) fue el fundador del movimiento YMCA. [1] Biografía. Nació en Inglaterra en 1821, el menor de 8 hermanos. A los 20 años, dejó la granja en la que se crio y se mudó a Londres. Pronto encontró un trabajo en una fábrica de telas.
Sir George Williams – Fundador de la YMCA. George Williams nació en Somerset, Inglaterra, el 11 de octubre de 1821. En 1836 se trasladó a Londres para trabajar como aprendiz de un pañero, y en 1841 ya trabajaba él mismo como pañero.
Sir George Williams – Founder of the YMCA. George Williams was born in Somerset, England, on 11 October 1821. In 1836 he moved to London to work as an apprentice to a Draper, and by 1841 was himself working as a Draper.
11 de oct. de 2021 · 200th anniversary of the birth of YMCA founder George Williams. Date: 11 October 2021. On 11 October 2021, we mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of our founder, George Williams, in Somerset, England. In June 1844, together with 11 other young men, George Williams established the YMCA.
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- Williams argued that an organism faces these sorts of evolutionary tradeoffs throughout its lifetime: how much energy to invest in maturing before starting to reproduce, for example, or how much to invest in raising offspring before searching for another mate. Natural selection should find a balance between an animal’s current investment in itself and its offspring and in potential future benefits. Williams speculated that animals could also keep track of how these factors change and adjust their behavior accordingly–like an investor deciding which stocks to keep or sell.
The evolutionary biologist George Williams died on Wednesday at the age of 84. He was one of the most important evolutionary biologists of the twentieth century, although he’s not a familiar name beyond scientific circles. Gently, persistently, he reformulated how we think about natural selection and its many effects. As Richard Dawkins noted today, “He was one of the great evolutionary thinkers of my lifetime.”
In 2004, I wrote a profile of Williams for Science. The occasion was a meeting that was held in Williams’s honor, in which one scientist after another stood up to talk about the influence he had had on their work. They investigated everything from human behavior to the mating of fish to disorders of pregnancy. How on Earth could he have so much influence in so many different directions? Permit me to self-plagiarize:
It was a privilege to talk to Williams, first over the phone and then at the meeting itself. Williams was wonderfully articulate in all his answers. But it didn’t take long for me to notice that he would sometimes forget a person’s name. After one of these pauses, Williams stated, matter-of-factly, “Let me point out, I’m an Alzheimer’s victim.” And then he returned to his critique of group selection.
My head started to spin. I tried to continue to play the part of the reporter, but I had to keep myself from contemplating the melancholy irony of the moment. Starting in 1978, when he was 52, Williams kept track of his physical decline. He would go once a year to a track near his home on Long Island and time how long it took him to run 1700 meters. Some years he ran a little faster than the last, but over the course of twelve years his performance got worse and worse. When George Williams won the Crafoord Prize in 1999 (a prize considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize for branches of biology other than physiology and medicine), he proudly showed a graph of his slowing pace in order to drive home his theories on aging. During our conversation, Williams told me that his own Alzheimer’s disease was the result of the same tradeoff. He was, as ever, the consummate biologist.
Sir George Williams (11 October 1821 – 6 November 1905) was an English philanthropist, businessman and founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). The oldest and largest youth charity in the world, its aim is to support young people to belong, contribute and thrive in their communities.
George Williams (11 de octubre de 1821, Somerset, Reino Unido - 6 de noviembre de 1905, Londres, Reino Unido) fue el fundador del movimiento YMCA. Datos rápidos Información personal, Nacimiento ... Cerrar. Biografía. Nació en Inglaterra en 1821, el menor de 8 hermanos. A los 20 años, dejó la granja en la que se crio y se mudó a Londres.
