Elizabeth du Gué Trapier

Elizabeth du Gué Trapier (1893-1974) was a Spanish art expert.[1] After graduating in library sciences, she was one of a select group of women chosen by Archer Milton Huntington, with her focus on paintings and drawings.[2]

Awards

Trapier was awarded Spain's Order of Civil Merit in 1968. Additionally, her years of work at the Hispanic Society led to her receiving the Society's Sorolla Medal. She also received the Mitre Medal.[1]

gollark: You could entirely fix cancer through better DNA error correction, for instance, and the technology for that has been developed as part of communication/storage systems we have now (although admittedly implementing it in biology would probably be very very hard).
gollark: On the other hand, through actually having a planning process and not just blindly seeking local minima, a human can make big changes to designs even if the middle ones wouldn't be very good, which evolution can't.
gollark: And despite randomly breaking in bizarre ways, living stuff has much better self-repair than any human designs.
gollark: No human could come up with the really optimized biochemistry we use and make it work as well as evolution did, so in that way it's more "intelligent".
gollark: Intelligence is poorly defined, really.

References

  1. "Elizabeth Trapier, 81, Dead; An Expert on Spanish Art". The New York Times. 1974-10-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  2. "History". Hispanic Society of America. 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
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