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Hace 12 horas · The University of Chicago was re-incorporated as a coeducational: 137 institution in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society, using $400,000 donated to the ABES to supplement a $600,000 donation from Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller, and including land donated by Marshall Field. While the Rockefeller donation provided money for academic operations and long-term endowment, it ...
Hace 12 horas · Early life Main article: Early life of Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643 [a]) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before. Born prematurely, Newton was a small ...
Hace 12 horas · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈ ɒ p ən h aɪ m ər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.
Hace 12 horas · James Madison (March 16, 1751 [b] – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the ...
Hace 12 horas · Carl Gustav Jung (/ j ʊ ŋ / YUUNG; German: [kaʁl ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist.After ending a period of collaboration with Freud and involvement in the early psychoanalytic movement he went on to found the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author, illustrator, and correspondent, and a complex and ...
Hace 12 horas · Peter Hotez (B.A. 1980), dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine; Howard A. Howe (B.A. 1925), polio researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Allyn Merriam Hungerford (M.D. 1839), prominent Connecticut physician, legislator ...
Hace 12 horas · Early life Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig Jr. was born June 19, 1903, at 1994 Second Avenue (according to his birth certificate) in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan ; he weighed almost 14 pounds (6.4 kg) at birth. He was the second of four children of German immigrants Christina Foch (1881–1954) and Heinrich Gehrig (1867–1946). Christina was born in 1881 in Wilster, Schleswig-Holstein, a ...
