Laurence James Ludovici
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Laurence (Lorenz) James Vernon Ludovici (19 September 1910[1] – 24 April 1996)[2] was an American non-fiction author.
He was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the son of Pieter James Owen Ludovici (1877-1953), superintendent of police, and Marion Zoe de Hoedt (1886-1926), daughter of Frederick James de Hoedt and Alice Lucretia Vander Straaten. Ludovici married Maria ... of Alsace, Germany in England. Ludovici was known for his biographical accounts of scientific and medical achievements. He died in London on 24 April 1996.
Bibliography
- Cone of Oblivion — A Vendetta in Science Parrish, London (1961)
- Cosmetic Scalpel: The Life of Charles Willi, Beauty-Surgeon. Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press (1981)
- Flemming — Discoverer of Penicillin A. Drakers (1952)
- Great Moments in Medicine Phoenix House / Roy Publishers (1961)
- Nobel Prize Winners Acro Publishers, London (1957)
- Origins of Language (1965)
- Seeing Near and Seeing Far: The Story of Microscopes and Telescopes. J. Baker (1966)
- The Chain of Life: The Story of Heredity Phoenix House (1963)
- The Challenging Sky: The Life of Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe.
- The Discovery of Anaesthesia. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company (1961)
- The Final Inequality: A Critical Assessment of Womans's Sexual Role in Society. New York: Tower Books (1971)
- The Great Tree of Life. Paleontology: The Natural History of Living Creatures Phoenix House (1963)
- The Itch for Play: Gamblers and Gambling in High Life and Low Life London: Jarrolds (1962)
- The Three of Us. London: Marjay Books (1993)
- The World of The Infinitely Small, Explorations through the Microscope Putnam (1959)
- Tomorrow Sometimes Comes: Ten Years Against Tyranny Odhams, P. (1958)
References
- ^ "The Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union in Ceylon". Vol. 57, No. 1-4. 1967. p. 39.
- ^ James Lorenz Ludovici, England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
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