If your name is Beaumont-you must be a geologist! Well, sometimes...: Funny Stories of the so-called "Nominative determinism". Historical joyous Vignettes

• Authors: Ohry, A

Abstracts

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Rather an historical curiosity, not a too serious subject, is the phenomenon of "nominative determinism". Are some persons compelled to take up a line of work and career suggested by their surnames? Are names also hold the secret to success? Was Sigmund Freud joyous ?? (Freud=joy); was another Austrian neurologist and pharmacologist, (1871- 1953), Alfred Fröhlich, a happy person? (Fröhlich=happy)? Well, let us enjoy the stories of some people whose names became their professions.

Keywords

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Nominative determinism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Medyczny w Białymstoku
• Journal: Progress in Health Sciences
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 171-174

Contributors

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Ohry, A