... Army Medical Corps. There was a lack of doctors, so he was sent back to school to finished his Medical Bachelor degree at the University of Toronto, and graduated in 1916. Frederick immediately rejoined the Canadian Army Medical Corps and was sent to England. After the first World War ... fellow classmate who has died because of the condition. To do any research, Banting needed proper equipment along with financial support. He turned to the University of Toronto, and tried to convince Dr. Macleod to allow him the use of the U of T labs to investigate the fluids released by ... medicine,...

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... Army Medical Corps. There was a lack of doctors, so he was sent back to school to finished his Medical Bachelor degree at the University of Toronto, and graduated in 1916. Frederick immediately rejoined the Canadian Army Medical Corps and was sent to England. After the first World War ... fellow classmate who has died because of the condition. To do any research, Banting needed proper equipment along with financial support. He turned to the University of Toronto, and tried to convince Dr. Macleod to allow him the use of the U of T labs to investigate the fluids released by ... medicine,...

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... there in 1930 with the highest grades in her class. During the summer, she received a letter saying that she had been selected to attend National Central University a first class school in Nanjing China. At the end of the summer, she enrolled as a mathematics student there. She soon switched to physics. She ... 1936. China did not have graduate instructions in physics so she decided to go to the United States for further schooling. She went to the University of California in Berkley and did her graduate research on beta decay, form of radioactive energy. She got her Ph. D. in 1940. 10 po...

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... Air Force in 1945, married Shirley Held, and then pursued English at New York University. Afterwards, Heller earned is M.A. at Columbia University in 1949 and for the next two years he studied at the University of Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar. In 1950, he became a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He later went on to work as advertising copywriter for Time magazine (1952 ... ...

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... government labs to build their companies. The key factor in the promoting Silicon Valley as the location for technology companies is government funding for Bay Area institutions, primarily, Stanford University. An advantage that Stanford was its willingness to share ideas and follow in the government's ideal of open standards. Unlike its east coast counterparts, MIT and private companies like ... research and development, Stanford soon became a key component in both training and government innovation. Along with UC-Berkeley, most of the young talented technical engineers were at the Sta...

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... October 7, 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He traveled many places, and did many things with his life. His family was especially talented. His father, Christian, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. His mother, Ellen, came from a wealthy Jewish family skilled in banking. His younger brother, Harald, became a great mathematician. As a child, Bohr's abilities and interests in science were very ... noticeable. When he had grown up, he went to the University of Copenhagen, where his father taught. In 1911, he received his doctorate. Bohr then went to England, continuing...

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... in Washington D.C. His father Richard Thomas Drew was a carpet layer and the only black in the carpet and tile layer union. His mother Nora Burrell Drew was a graduate of Howard University's Miner Normal school in Washington D.C., she was a homemaker. The Drew family lived in a small city called Foggy Bottom near Washington D.C. Charles had a brother (Joseph), and two sister's (Nora and Elsie ... awarded a partial scholarship to Amherst College in Massachusetts. When he graduated from Amherst he decided to study Medicine. At first Charles was rejected from Howard University for medicine...

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... agreed with the Americans' ideas more than the monarchy based ideas and values of Japan. After Oe finished elementary school and secondary school he attended the University of Tokyo. During his time at the University he changed his major from mathematics to French Literature after he realized his love for literature. He wrote his senior thesis on Jean-Paul Sartre and graduated ... from the University of Tokyo with his Bachelor's Degree in French Literature. During his time in college Oe published two books: "Prize Stock" and "Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids". Oe's book Prize ... ...

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... contributions to nuclear physics and the understanding of the atomic structure. Niels Henrick David Bohr was born on October 7, 1985 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father, Christian, was a professor at the University of Copenhagen and his mother, Ellen, came from a Jewish family prominent in banking. Niels also had a younger brother, Harald, who grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. Bohr was interested in ... science from a very young age, his parents encouraged him to keep learning more about it. Niels went to the University of Copenhagen, while he was there he won a gold medal from th...

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... of that year introduced the now famous equivalence between mass and energy in the equation E = mc2. Because of this work, Einstein received his first academic post in 1908 at the University of Bern. After making success with his first theories, Einstein moved on to tackle greater problems, such as gravity. In 1907 he came up with a solution that stated that gravity ... starting to deteriorate. He even started liking his own cousin, Elsa! In 1909 Einstein moved to Zurich where he received the position that he wanted, professor of physics at the University of Zurich, the ETH. In 1914, Ein...

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... a Jewish woman aspiring to acquire the title of scientist. Even her own father struck her with a resentful opposition initially when he refused to support her dream by of attending Cambridge University. It took the heavy strain of three very irate women to ultimately change his mind, which turned out to be one of the best pride worthy decisions of the century ... here before moving and working in France for three years. After France, at the age of 29, Rosalind "got down to business- at King's University in England "analyzing X-ray photographs of DNA molecules- for a Mr. John Randall. Ki...

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... that students would sit outside of his classroom just to hear him speak every day. After teaching he then served as the president of Princeton University for ten years. And after resigning as president of Princeton University, he became the governor of New Jersey for just two years before he ran for presidency. The first presidential election he ran for was in ... ...

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... . Women were the homemakers and caretakers of the children, rarely were women asked to have an active role in business or politics. Occasionally, they would attend University before marriage. The reason for a young woman to attend university was to find a suitable husband, not to get an education. When World War II began, the United States government campaigned to call on the American ... ...

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... School in New Milford, Connecticut, and four years at Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He spent the summer of 1935 studying at the London School of Economics. He entered Princeton University but was forced to leave during his freshman year because of an attack of jaundice. In the fall of 1936 he enrolled at Harvard ... University, graduating cum laude in June 1940. During World War II, he commanded a PT (torpedo) boat in the Pacific. When the boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in August ... ...

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... . This fascination with chemistry led him to attend Michigan's college of mining and technology. He graduated with his bachelor's degree 1931. After obtaining his degree he decided to attend the University of Minnesota to go to graduate school. Here he studied the electron affinity of various halogens, he obtained his doctorate in chemistry in 1935. After Calvin received his doctorate he ... decided to go to England to continue his education. He decided to attend a post doctorate fellow at the University of Mandeste in England. This is where he became very interested in photosynthesis. P...

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... . My father's name is David Croly and my mother's name is Jane Cunningham. Some of my early on goals included graduating from Harvard University, and becoming a well-known journalist, both of which were later achieved. After graduating from Harvard University, I became the editor of Agricultural Record. In 1909, I published the book titled The Promise of American Life. In this book I stressed several ... ...

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... larger colleges his achievement could be advertised to attract higher paying students. In 1917, Orwell won a scholarship to Wellington College, after three months, he received a scholarship to Eaton University. He attended Eaton University until 1921 after he did poorly in his classes. It was while attending these shools, that Orwell first began to realize the difference of his social background to that ... ...

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... the author Don E. Fehrenbacher is very qualified to write a book on Abraham Lincoln. He is a history professor at Stanford University, and has done a great job explaining Lincoln's life. He is qualified to write this book because he has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was with and educated with the US Army during World War 2. He has taught for a total of ... ...

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... him. His stepmother then raised him. Despite the many changes in where he was living, he always was good in school. He continued his studies at Xaverian College and Manchester University. When in college he studied the English language, and literature. He finished school in 1940, which was right around World War II. So he now had to serve at the ... alcohol. Burgess was released from the medical corp. around 1945, and then started teaching. He held down to jobs from 1946 to 1950. The jobs were a college professor at Birmingham University and a teacher at Banbury Grammar School. He was n...

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... 4, 1965. Elliot was born into an upper class Missouri family. Though he spent his childhood in Missouri, his work contains very few signs of St. Louis. After studying at Harvard University, Elliot moved to Europe, where he did the majority of his writing and enjoyed most of his literary success. He married Vivien Haigh-Wood in July 1915 and from 1915 ... reader could not understand. However, it was this blatant disregard for average that enabled Elliot to be so successful. The influence of the classical education he received while at Harvard University can be seen throughout his works. ...

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... was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected to the presidency. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He briefly attended Princeton University, and then entered Harvard University in 1936. At Harvard he wrote an honors thesis on British foreign policies in the 1930s. It was published in 1940, the year he graduated, under the title ... ...

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... citizenship until 1899; he became a citizen in 1901. In 1902, Einstein worked at a patent office in Bern. He married Mileva Maritsch and had two sons. He earned a doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1905 for a thesis "On a new determination of molecular dimensions."" When he was 26 years old, he wrote three papers. The first of which, he examined the phenomenon ... and persecuted them. Einstein would have been killed or imprisoned, but fortunately he was visiting the United States. He was offered to live in the U.S. and given a position at Princeton University in New Jersey. His ...

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... the U.S. on November 5, 1996 and then was re-elected to his second term in 2000. His political career started after he graduated from Yale University where he received a degree in Political Science, and then a law degree from Boston University in 1975. Afterwards, he worked for several years as a deputy prosecutor in King County, Washington. In 1982, he served on the House Judiciary ... ...

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... to modify the education system, as he intended on creating a fascist future. The Nazi Regime used totalitarianism as a key to dominate the education scheme in Germany. From kindergarten through to university was a perfect opportunity for "brainwashing" students in fascist ideologies. Hitler personally appointed a new Minister for Education with instructions to change the education system; thus a Nazi National Curriculum was introduced. School ... we started again from the beginning." McKee, I. (1960) Tomorrow the World, J.M. Dent & Sons, London. Writings that weren't approved by the Rei...

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... was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected to the presidency. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He briefly attended Princeton University, and then entered Harvard University in 1936. At Harvard he wrote an honors thesis on British foreign policies in the 1930s. It was published in 1940, the year he graduated, under the title ... ...

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