Chadwick, John
Born: May 21, 1920 AD
Died: 1998 AD, at 78 years of age.
Nationality:
British
Categories:
Scholars
1920 - Born on the 21st of May in London.
1952 - He was on the staff of the Oxford Classical Dictionary before beginning a Classics lectureship at Cambridge.
1958 - Chadwick became the figurehead of the Linear B work, writing the accessible popular book The Decipherment of Linear B.
1978 - Revising Documents in Mycenean Greek.
1984 - He retired, by which time he had become the Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge.
1998 - Died on the 24th of November.
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