Norman Cohn, also known as Norman Rufus Colin Cohn, (born 12 January1915) is British academic, historian and writer, now Emeritus Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex. He was born into a Jewish family in London. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, serving for six years in the British Army from 1939. He then held a number of academic positions, before a first appointment at Sussex in 1963.
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The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (1957)
Norman Rufus Colin Cohn, (born in London 12 January1915) is a British academic, historian and writer, now Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex.
In 1966 he was appointed a Professorial Fellow at the University of Sussex and became the director of a research project on the preconditions for persecutions and genocides.
From 1973 to 1980, Cohn was Astor-Wolfson Professor at Sussex.
Knowing that Cohn was a fan of pinball, Pete Townshend suggested that the album's deaf, dumb, and blind title character could also be an exceptional pinball player.
Cohn opinion of the album immediately improved, and Townshend subsequently wrote "Pinball Wizard" to be added to the album.
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