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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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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.
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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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Percy Julian, an African American chemist who had two fingers severed when he was punished for learning to read, was born in...
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In 1922, engineers and scientists at the University of Illinois, Urban- Champaign invented the sound motion picture. ...
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