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Manhattan University (previously Manhattan College) is a private, Catholic university in New York City.Originally established in 1853 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Christian Brothers) as an academy for day students, it was later incorporated as an institution of higher education through a charter granted by the New York State Board of Regents.
William Jacob graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in chemistry and joined Lawrence as a part of the Manhattan Project. [2] Their youngest brother, Clinton E. Knox, also graduated from Harvard University, with a PhD in history, and he served as an ambassador to Dahomey (now Benin, 1964–69) and Haiti (1969–73). [4]
Laurence was born Leib Wolf Siew in Salantai, a small city in the Russian Empire that is now in Lithuania.He emigrated to the United States in 1905, after participating in the Russian Revolution of 1905, and he soon changed his name, taking "William" after William Shakespeare, "Leonard" after Leonardo da Vinci, and "Laurence" after a street he lived on in Roxbury, Massachusetts (but spelled ...
Cornell University - main campus in Ithaca, New York, but three additional schools in New York City Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island, Manhattan; Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences; Weill Cornell Medical College; Fordham University. Lincoln Center campus, Manhattan. Fordham University School of Law; Gabelli School of Business
Lawrence Harding Johnston (February 11, 1918 – December 4, 2011) was an American physicist, a young contributor to the Manhattan Project. He was the only man to witness all three atomic explosions in 1945: the Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan .
Joseph A. Alutto – executive vice president and provost of Ohio State University [1] Edward Countryman – Class of 1966 – distinguished professor of history at Southern Methodist University [2] Christopher Coyne – Class of 1999 – F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Lawrence and his Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06426-3. OCLC 19455957; Herken, Gregg (2002). Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. New York, New York: Holt Paperbacks.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard ( Lenox Avenue ) between West 135th and 136th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City , it has ...