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Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research
Each year the Albany Medical Center honors a physician, scientist, or group whose work has led to significant advances in the fields of health care and…Columbia University
(Encyclopedia) Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the…James Smithson
Name at birth: James Lewis MacieJames Smithson was an English chemist and mineralogist who left his fortune to the United States to found what became the Smithsonian Institution. Smithson was born…College and University Endowments
Sitting on a mountain of money An endowment in a type of trust or fund set aside for a particular purpose. In the case of colleges, the endowment is a fund (which perpetuates and grows over time)…Walt Whitman: I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
I Hear It Was Charged Against MeI hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions, But really I am neither for nor against institutions, (What indeed have I in common…State of the Union Address: Martin van Buren (December 2, 1839)
Martin van Buren (December 2, 1839) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I regret that I can not on this occasion congratulate you that the past year has been one of unalloyed…1997 Medal of Science Recipients
William K. Estes, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., for fundamental theories of cognition and learning that transformed the field of experimental…John Nash
Name at birth: John Forbes Nash, Jr.John Nash was the Princeton mathematician whose work on game theory won him the Nobel Prize, and whose life experience with schizophrenia was depicted in the 2001…Collected Inaugural Addresses of U.S. Presidents: Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson William Henry Harrison Martin Van Buren Inaugural Address Monday, March 4, 1837 Fellow-Citizens: The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I…2001 National Medal of Science Recipients
Andreas Acrivos, Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, for his pioneering research in fluid mechanics and leadership in the…Trending
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