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Duke's father, Washington, had owned a tobacco company that his sons James and Benjamin (1855–1929) took over in the 1880s. In 1885, James Buchanan Duke acquired a license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rolled tobacco).
James B. Duke endowed the foundation on December 11, 1924, with $40 million. In the Indenture of Trust, Duke specified that he wanted the endowment to support Duke University, Davidson College, Furman University, Johnson C. Smith University; non-profit hospitals and children's homes in the two Carolinas; and rural United Methodist churches in North Carolina, retired pastors, and their ...
James B. Duke once stated about the status of Durham: [21] Durham, as a city, must be holistically judged for its economic merit. This means we musn't let our colored neighbors fall into economic depression. It was also evident that the level of business on Black Wall Street was insignificant in comparison to the Duke Tobacco industry.
The Duke Endowment, established by and named for industrialist James B. Duke, provided the original funds for Trinity College to become Duke University in 1924 and remains the university’s ...
The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949 1993; The Dukes of Durham and The Launching of Duke University 1987 [7] Electrifying the Piedmont Carolinas: The Duke Power Company, 1904-1997 2001; Bold Entrepreneur: A Life of James B. Duke 2009; The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation [8] winner of the Jules F. Landry Award
At Duke University, the title of James B. Duke Distinguished Professor is given to a small number of the faculty with extraordinary records of achievement. At some universities, titles like " distinguished professor ", " institute professor ", or " regents professor " are counterparts of this title.
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Paul Lawrence Modrich (born June 13, 1946) is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair. [1] Modrich received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, jointly with Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl. [2] [3]