“Parental Loss and Genius,” American
Psychologist (March 1978): 211.
Lucille Iremonger’s findings about the
backgrounds of England’s prime
ministers can be found in The Fiery
Chariot: A Study of British Prime
Ministers and the Search for Love
(Secker and Warburg, 1970), 4.
Iremonger actually made an error in her
calculations, which was corrected by the
historian Hugh Berrington in the British
Journal of Political Science 4 (July
1974): 345. The scientific literature on
the association between parental loss
and eminence is considerable. Among
other studies are S. M. Silverman,
“Parental Loss and Scientists,” Science
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