Immanuel Velikovsky

Immanuel Velikovsky (Russian: Иммануи́л Велико́вский (born 10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1895 – died 17 November 1979) was a Russian independent scholar best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision published in 1950. Earlier, he had played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.