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According to the organization Worldwide Challenge: | According to the organization Worldwide Challenge: | ||
| − | {{cquote|In a study listed | + | {{cquote|In a study listed in [[Who's Who]], it took 5,000 [[Presbyterian]] ministers to produce one child listed in Who's Who. Among lawyers the ratio was 5,000 to 1; dentists 2,500 to 1. But for every seven Christian missionary families from the United States, one of their children would be listed in Who's Who.<ref>http://www.wwcmagazine.org/1997/call.html</ref>}} |
Some examples of minister's sons are: | Some examples of minister's sons are: | ||
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The minister's son is relatively rare in numbers (less than one in many tens of thousands), yet extraordinarily productive in accomplishment. This is even more true of missionary families.
According to the organization Worldwide Challenge:
| “ | In a study listed in Who's Who, it took 5,000 Presbyterian ministers to produce one child listed in Who's Who. Among lawyers the ratio was 5,000 to 1; dentists 2,500 to 1. But for every seven Christian missionary families from the United States, one of their children would be listed in Who's Who.[1] | ” |
Some examples of minister's sons are:
- Niels Abel, one of the greatest mathematicians, son of a Norwegian pastor.
- Leonhard Euler, the most prolific mathematician ever, son of a Calvinist pastor.
- William Hamilton, the greatest-ever Irish mathematician and biggest contributor of mathematics to physics since Newton, raised by his uncle the Reverend James Hamilton.
- Isaac Newton, the greatest physicist, stepson of Anglican minister.
- Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, son of a Congregational minister.
- Bernhard Riemann, the most brilliant modern mathematician, son of a Lutheran pastor.