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JOHN JOLY came of a remarkable lineage. His father's grandfather was a member of a French noble family. His mother, a German countess, whose family had been ennobled by Frederick the Great, was descended from Greek, Italian, and English ancestors. This mixture of blood, perhaps, may explain his ready sympathy with the most diverse personalities, his princely generosity which often gave to others what he denied to himself, and his versatility which enabled him to prosecute research in so many fields of knowledge, and to obtain æsthetic pleasure in the realms of art, literature, iusic and science.
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DIXON, H., POOLE, J. Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S. Nature 133, 90–92 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133090a0
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