Nicholas Kollerstrom was born on 1946 and is an English historian of science and author who is known for the promotion of Holocaust denial and other conspiracy theories.
12 Facts About Nicholas Kollerstrom
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Nicholas Kollerstrom has written entries for the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.
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Nicholas Kollerstrom studied Natural Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1965, specializing in the history and philosophy of science.
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In 1990, Nicholas Kollerstrom was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in 1994 he was awarded a PhD by University College London for a thesis entitled The Achievement of Newton's "Theory of the Moon's Motion" of 1702.
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Nicholas Kollerstrom was awarded a Leverhulme scholarship and an honorary post-doctoral research fellowship in UCL's department of science and technology studies.
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Nicholas Kollerstrom published research that year in Equine Veterinary Journal on lunar phases and horse breeding and in 2003 in BMC Psychiatry on lunar months and human behaviour.
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Nicholas Kollerstrom was active in political campaigns in the UK throughout the 1980s.
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In 1989 Nicholas Kollerstrom stood as a Green Party candidate for East Guildford in the Surrey County Council election.
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In 2007, on the website of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, a Holocaust-denial group, Nicholas Kollerstrom argued for a fringe view that the gas chambers in the Auschwitz concentration camp had been used for disinfection purposes only and that only one million Jews died in the war.
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The historian of science, Noel Swerdlow, suggested in Isis in 2010 that the publishers of the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers should withdraw it and replace the entries Nicholas Kollerstrom had written on John Couch Adams, John Flamsteed, and Isaac Newton; Swerdlow wrote that a "line has been crossed that should never be crossed".
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In 2018 six of the group's events were cancelled by the venue Conway Hall when Nicholas Kollerstrom's involvement was revealed.
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Nicholas Kollerstrom has regularly appeared on the David Icke-associated Richie Allen Show, including on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2016.