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Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

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Born in 1899, Ernest Hemingway was the second of six children born to Grace Hall and Clarence Edmonds Hemingway. Ernest developed a love of literature and music from his mother, a trained opera singer and music teacher after her marriage, and gained a keen interest in outdoor sports--hunting, fishing, woodscraft--from his father, a doctor and avid naturalist. Divided between the family's home in Oak Park, Illinois, and their summer cottage on Lake Waldoon in Michigan, Ernest's chil...

Bunting, Mary Ingraham, 1910-1998

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Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story. She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University. Bunting was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Henry A. and Mary Shotwell Ingraham; she was known as "Polly" to distinguish her from her mother. Her father was an attorney; her mother was the head of th...

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

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Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made tremendous contributions to his field, transforming accepted notions of atomic structure, helping to develop nuclear fission, and advocating for international cooperation in crafting responsible nuclear policy. Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1885 into a family that encouraged his academic pursuits. Christian Bohr, his father, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. Bohr credited his father for awakening hi...

Radcliffe Seminars

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The Radcliffe Seminars were inaugurated in 1950 with initial funding from the Carnegie Corporation to provide non-credit liberal arts courses taught mainly by Harvard professors to women in mid-life. Currently, courses are offered in five areas: liberal arts, landscape design, management studies, non-credit enrichment courses, and study tours. From the description of Records of the Radcliffe Seminars, 1950-1985 (inclusive), 1950-1959 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: ...

Notestein, Wallace, 1878-1969

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Radcliffe College. Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute

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The Bunting Institute (former names: Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, 1960-66, and the Radcliffe Institute, 1966-78) was founded by Radcliffe President Mary Ingraham Bunting to foster scholarly study by women and on women. The Institute appoints Fellows and Research Associates in the arts and sciences, and provides them with workspace and stipends to further their research in a variety of programs. These in the past have included funding for part-time medical residents from the Josiah ...

Mayer, Maria Goeppart, 1900-1972.

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Charity Organization Society

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Mount Holyoke College.

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The first official publication of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was a catalogue issued in 1837 containing information about trustees, teachers, terms of admission, the course of study, the schedule for the year, Family Accommodations, and the Moral and Religious Influence at the school. Subsequent catalogues (with periodic updates) trace the growth of the institution and provide detailed information about the academic program and residential life for students at the College. These publications h...

Smith, Constance E.

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992

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Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992, Metallurgist of Cambridge, Mass. Smith received a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926 and taught there from 1961 until his retirement in 1969. His title of Institute Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy and the History of Metallurgy, one rarely conferred and only on those whose work goes beyond traditional disciplines, reflects the high esteem in which he was held. Smith has had great influence on contemporary metalsm...

Smith, Alice Kimball

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Historian, educator, and college administrator, Alice Kimball Smith (1907-2001) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, 1928 and Ph.D. from Yale University, 1936. She was married to Cyril Stanley Smith, metallurgist and historian of technology in 1931. While her husband worked on the development of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, 1943-1946, Smith taught in the Los Alamos High School. Subsequently in Chicago Smith was assistant editor of The Bulletin of At...