Complex sentence: Immanuel Velikovsky (17 November 1979) was a Russian-Jewish 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.
Split into simpler sentences: Immanuel Velikovsky (17 November 1979) was a Russian-Jewish independent scholar. He is 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.