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== Career == == Career ==
Upon release from internment, Sommerhoff taught science at the ].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70296478 |title=Metaphysics, soul, and ethics in ancient thought : themes from the work of Richard Sorabji |date=2005 |publisher=Clarendon Press |others=Ricardo Salles |isbn=1-4237-8866-4 |location=Oxford |chapter=Intellectual Autobiography |oclc=70296478}}</ref> While there, he used boxes of numbered cards, containing questions, answers, tutorial material, or descriptions of experiments, on a variety of different subjects.<ref name="JPM">{{Cite web |title=J Paul Morrison :: Biography |url=https://jpaulm.github.io/index.html |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=jpaulm.github.io}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|date=January 2023}} He presented science programmes for the ] from 1960–1962 before being recruited to ] in 1963 by headmaster ].<ref name="book">{{Cite book |last=Scragg |first=Brian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108920922 |title=Sevenoaks School : a history |date=1993 |publisher=Ashgrove Press Limited |isbn=1-85398-063-3 |location=Bath |oclc=1108920922}}</ref> Some of his students were ],<ref></ref> and ].<ref name="JPM" />{{Self-published inline|date=January 2023}} Upon release from internment, Sommerhoff taught science at the ].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70296478 |title=Metaphysics, soul, and ethics in ancient thought : themes from the work of Richard Sorabji |date=2005 |publisher=Clarendon Press |others=Ricardo Salles |isbn=1-4237-8866-4 |location=Oxford |chapter=Intellectual Autobiography |oclc=70296478}}</ref> While there, he used boxes of numbered cards, containing questions, answers, tutorial material, or descriptions of experiments, on a variety of different subjects.<ref name="JPM">{{Cite web |title=J Paul Morrison :: Biography |url=https://jpaulm.github.io/index.html |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=jpaulm.github.io}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|date=January 2023}} He presented science programmes for the ] from 1960–1962 before being recruited to ] in 1963 by headmaster ].<ref name="book">{{Cite book |last=Scragg |first=Brian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108920922 |title=Sevenoaks School : a history |date=1993 |publisher=Ashgrove Press Limited |isbn=1-85398-063-3 |location=Bath |oclc=1108920922}}</ref> Some of his students were ],<ref></ref> and ].<ref name="JPM" />{{Self-published inline|date=January 2023}}

==Child sexual abuse==
Alice Hemmings{{who|date=January 2023}} reported allegations of sexual abuse dating from 1976 in ''The Sevenoaks Chronicle''. The assault was reported to the Kent Police force by Stuart Neilson{{who|date=January 2023}} in 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Dead-Sevenoaks-teacher-Gerd-Sommerhoff-accused/story-17263435-detail/story.html |title=Dead Sevenoaks teacher Gerd Sommerhoff accused of sexual abuse |first=Alice |last=Hemmings |date=8 November 2012 |agency=Sevenoaks Chronicle |accessdate=8 November 2012 |archive-date=10 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110021739/http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Dead-Sevenoaks-teacher-Gerd-Sommerhoff-accused/story-17263435-detail/story.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Gerd Sommerhoff was also alleged to have displayed pornography to pupils and to have made obscene remarks including boasts of bestiality. Sevenoaks School agreed to settle a compensation claim by another pupil alleging sexual abuse by Gerd Sommerhoff at Sevenoaks School when he was 12 years old. According to the plaintiff's lawyer, Tracey Emmett, "Sommerhoff’s abuse may have been suspected by those who worked with him."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sevenoakschronicle.co.uk/Sevenoaks-School-settles-sex-abuse-case-court/story-20048271-detail/story.html |title=Sevenoaks School settles sex abuse case out of court |first=Sean-Paul |last=Doran |date=7 November 2013 |agency=Sevenoaks Chronicle |access-date=7 November 2013 |archive-date=8 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108202738/http://www.sevenoakschronicle.co.uk/Sevenoaks-School-settles-sex-abuse-case-court/story-20048271-detail/story.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Several further witnesses and victims have subsequently been identified, indicating that Gerd Sommerhoff was a preferential paedophile attracted to pubescent boys.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sevenoakschronicle.co.uk/Sommerhoff-abuse/story-20094871-detail/story.html |title=Sevenoaks School teacher had 'six more victims' of sex abuse, claims accuser |first=Sean-Paul |last=Doran |date=18 November 2013 |agency=Sevenoaks Chronicle |access-date=23 November 2013 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203022310/http://www.sevenoakschronicle.co.uk/Sommerhoff-abuse/story-20094871-detail/story.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>


==Works== ==Works==

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German scientist (1915–2002)

Gerd Walter Christian Sommerhoff OBE (1915-2002) was a pioneer and lifelong advancer of theoretical neuroscience and a noted humanist.

Early life and family

Sommerhoff and his twin sister were born in Wiesbaden, Germany, to Elizabeth Ruher and Walter Georg Sommerhoff, a wealthy banker who was born in New York to German merchant Arthur Louis Carl Sommerhoff (b. 1 February 1844 in Rodenbach near Hanau; d. 16 August 1911 in Domburg) and his wife piano teacher Elise, née Schumann (1843–1928), the second child of Robert and Clara Schumann. Sommerhoff was a great-grandson of the German composers Robert Schumann and his wife Clara. The Sommerhoff family resided in Haarlem, Netherlands, until the loss of the family fortune in the Wall Street crash and the death of their father "in compromising circumstances". The two younger children moved to Ryde on the Isle of Wight in 1931 with their mother Elizabeth Sommerhoff when she married Major Bernard Francis Anne Vernon-Harcourt, while their elder brother, Walter Hans Sommerhoff, emigrated to Santiago, Chile. Sommerhoff studied engineering at Zurich Polytechnic (now ETH Zurich) and philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University. Gerd was interned in as an enemy alien Canada until 1942.

Career

Upon release from internment, Sommerhoff taught science at the Dragon School. While there, he used boxes of numbered cards, containing questions, answers, tutorial material, or descriptions of experiments, on a variety of different subjects. He presented science programmes for the BBC from 1960–1962 before being recruited to Sevenoaks School in 1963 by headmaster Kim Taylor. Some of his students were Tim Hunt, and Alan Macfarlane.

Works

References

  1. Gerd Sommerhoff, Obituary, The Times, Friday 17 May 2002
  2. "Richard Brown Baker family papers". Rhode Island Historical Society. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  3. "Intellectual Autobiography". Metaphysics, soul, and ethics in ancient thought : themes from the work of Richard Sorabji. Ricardo Salles. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2005. ISBN 1-4237-8866-4. OCLC 70296478.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ "J Paul Morrison :: Biography". jpaulm.github.io. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  5. Scragg, Brian (1993). Sevenoaks School : a history. Bath: Ashgrove Press Limited. ISBN 1-85398-063-3. OCLC 1108920922.
  6. Autobiography of Nobel Prizewinner Tim Hunt
  7. Review: Cole, Jonathan (31 December 2003). "Review of Sommerhoff (2000): Understanding Consciousness: Its Function and Brain Processes". Pragmatics & Cognition. 11 (2): 394–404. doi:10.1075/pc.11.2.13col. ISSN 0929-0907.

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