“The Lonely Crowd”
In the 1950s you did not have to be living in Levittown or in other New York suburbs to hear cocktail party conversation about...
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This site is a resource about thousands of discoveries, inventions, innovations, devices, concepts, techniques, and tools that were born at great American universities and that have changed our lives and the world in which we live.
It was established as a supplement for the material found in The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected Sodium Nebula
In 1989, Boston University Professor Michael Mendillo and his collaborators discovered the largest permanently visible...
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Berkeley astronomers Alex Filippenko and Adam Reiss were part of a larger international group that in 1998 discovered that the...
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Selman Waksman was born in 1888 into a Jewish family in Czarist Russia when there were few opportunities for Jewish children...
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Gerty Cori’s father, suffering from diabetes near the end of his life, said to his daughter, “Find me a cure.” ...
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