Eusabio schmendrick

Eusabio Zacobar Shmendrick,(April 1, 1884-October 19, 1928), was an Austrian theologist, philosopher, and botanist. He is considered to be one of the foremost Eastern European thinkers of the early 20th century.
Shmendrick was born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, though as an adult he was an avowed atheist. He was educated at the University of Vienna, and received a degree in 1899 at the age of 15, the youngest graduate of the school in nearly a century.
He fled to Quebec, Canada in 1914 at the onset of World War I, taking a teaching position at McGill University. Shmendrick married a native Canadian named Emily Embrey in 1917.
Shmendrick is perhaps best known for his work in cataloging the fauna of the South Pacific to an unprecedented extent in 1904, particularly on Papua New Guinea, where he became the first known observer of the Red Mangrove, Rhizophora mangle.
Traveling aboard the South African merchant vessel Bantu Wind, on a voyage funded in part by the estate of Cecil Rhodes. His findings were published in National Geographic in 1906.
The scientist is also often cited for "Shmendrick's Law," which states that: The probability of either a positive or negative outcome in a given scenario when no information is presented must be considered statistically equal. The rule is sometimes misinterpreted to mean that the probability of even a highly unlikely event is one in two.
Shmendrick died in Banjul, British Gambia, at the age of 44 of Sleeping Sickness, having been bitten by a tsetse fly three days earlier while on a river expedition.

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