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Charles Townes (A.M. in physics, 1937), 1964 Nobel laureate in physics and winner of the 2005 Templeton Prize, [1] National Medal of Science (1982); Gertrude B. Elion (adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1971 to 1983 and research professor from 1983 to 1999), 1988 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine [2]
Duke University. Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. [10]
The history of Duke University began when Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school in Randolph County, North Carolina (in the present-day town of Trinity), was founded in 1838. [1] The school was renamed to Union Institute Academy in 1841, Normal College in 1851, and to Trinity College in 1859. Finally moving to Durham in 1892, the ...
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was one of the deadliest acts of terrorism in American history. At 9:02 a.m. CST April 19, 1995, a Ryder rental truck containing more than 6,200 pounds (2,800 kg) [1] of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture was detonated in front of the north side of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal ...
Footnotes / references. [1] Duke Energy Corporation is an American electric power and natural gas holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company ranked as the 141st largest company in the United States in 2024 – its highest-ever placement on the Fortune 500 list.
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Residence. J. Deryl Hart House. Education. Santa Clara University (BA) Stanford University (MA, PhD) Vincent Price is an American academic administrator who has served as the 10th president of Duke University in North Carolina since 2017. Price previously served as provost of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 2009 to 2017. [1]
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