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Engineering education at Yale began more than a century before the founding of a School of Engineering. In the first half of the nineteenth century, chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman made fundamental contributions to the fractional distillation of petroleum, and his son, chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman, Jr., commercialized the process as a fuel source. [1]
Molecular biology laboratory equipment (6 P) O. Optical devices (21 C, 129 P, 1 F) Optomechanics (10 P) P. Positioning instruments (1 C, 11 P) R. Laboratory robots (4 ...
In 1853 and 1854, science and engineering courses were listed in the Yale College course catalog as offered by the Yale Scientific School. Porter elicited help from his father-in-law, Joseph Earl Sheffield (1793-1882), and in 1858, Sheffield donated over US$100,000 to purchase the old Medical Department building for the scientific school.
The history of Wright Lab begins with the creation of accelerator physics in the 1920s, and continues with the creation of the Arthur W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL) to operate the Yale MP-1 "Emperor" tandem Van de Graaff heavy ion accelerator from 1966 until 2011, and continues further with its transformation into the new Wright Lab, which was dedicated in 2017, to enable Wright ...
Jeff Van Gundy (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets [115] Ben Wanger, American-Israeli baseball pitcher, Team Israel; Anne Warner (B.A. 1976), first Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (bronze, rowing) [116] [117]
In 2004, Yale announced a major renovation of Cross Campus Library. [10] The two-year, US$47.8 million project, led by Thomas Beeby , was completed in October 2007. [ 2 ] [ 11 ] The library was renamed Bass Library after the renovation's lead donors, Anne and Robert Bass of Texas who donated nearly $20 million toward the effort.
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Alec Musser, the actor best known for playing Del Henry on All My Children, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, TMZ reports. Musser passed away Friday night at his home in Del ...