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During the 1960s and 1970s, the John Harvard Library consisted mainly of authoritative reprints of documents from the colonial era of American history. Among the most noted of these are Bernard Bailyn's edition of Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776; Anne Bradstreet's collected works; and the Life of George Washington by Mason L. Weems.
William Elwood Byerly (13 December 1849 – 20 December 1935) was an American mathematician. He was the Perkins Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.He was noted for his excellent teaching and textbooks. [1]
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is a 1985 children's book written by Roald Dahl [1] and illustrated by Quentin Blake. The plot follows a young boy named Bobby who meets a giraffe , a pelican , and a monkey , who work as window cleaners.
Harvard Professional & Executive Development was established in 2011 to provide working professionals with short, noncredit programs. The offerings were designed for those who wanted to build job skills in just a few days, with the educational content of a conference but the small-group environment of a traditional course.
George Vaillant, who directed the study for more than three decades, has published a summation of the key insights the study has yielded in the book Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study: [6] Alcoholism is a disorder of great destructive power. Alcoholism was the main cause of divorce between the Grant Study men and their ...
The Harvard Six Cities study aimed to address some of these questions. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] As it acknowledged in its introduction, it built on a number of earlier studies that had found "associations between mortality rates and particulate air pollution in U.S. metropolitan areas", including a 1970 Science paper "Air Pollution and Human Health" by ...
Following her Ph.D. she worked as a visiting fellow at Princeton University [1] and then was a postdoctoral fellow under David H. Hubel at Harvard University. [5] In 1983 she became an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and in 1988 she was promoted to professor, and in 2014 she was named the Takeda Professor of Neurobiology.
Marston was born in the Cliftondale section of Saugus, Massachusetts, the son of Annie Dalton (née Moulton) and Frederick William Marston. [4] [5] Marston was educated at Harvard University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and receiving his B.A. in 1915, an LL.B. in 1918, and a PhD in psychology in 1921.