Philip Gale

Philip Gale

A child prodigy named Philip Gale committed suicide at the age of 19, jumping from a classroom's window. Before jumping, he wrote on the blackboard Newton's equation for how an object accelerates as it falls, along with a sketch of a stick figure tossing a chair. He signed it, "Phil was here."

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