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William Henry Gates II [1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), [2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. [3]
It became the Eugenics Society in 1924 (often referred to as the British Eugenics Society to distinguish it from others). [2] From 1909 to 1968 it published The Eugenics Review, a scientific journal dedicated to eugenics. [2] Membership reached its peak during the 1930s. [4] The Society was renamed the Galton Institute in 1989. [5]
In 1999, Gates received New York Institute of Technology's President's Medal. [265] Gates was elected a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1996 "for contributions to the founding and development of personal computing". [266] Entomologists named Bill Gates' flower fly, Eristalis gatesi, in his honor in 1997. [267]
Bill Gates met with President-elect Donald Trump for more than three hours about and talked about global health issues, including efforts to develop an HIV cure and to fight polio.
Gates Ventures is the personal service company of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Known until 2018 as bgC3 , it comprises his personal staff, a think tank on problems of health and global development, and a technology investment portfolio. [ 2 ]
Its original name as the American Eugenics Society lasted from 1922 to 1973, but the group changed their name after open use of the term "eugenics" became disfavored; it was known as the Society for the Study of Social Biology from 1973–2008, and the Society for Biodemography and Social Biology from 2008–2019.
The Eugenics Record Office (ERO), located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States, was a research institute that gathered biological and social information about the American population, serving as a center for eugenics and human heredity research from 1910 to 1939.
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