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Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, U.S. senator, and former California governor, together with his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford. It is named in honor of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died in 1884 from typhoid fever just before his 16th birthday. His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son ...
94.01. The Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales (or more commonly the Stanford–Binet) is an individually administered intelligence test that was revised from the original Binet–Simon Scale by Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon. It is in its fifth edition (SB5), which was released in 2003. It is a cognitive-ability and intelligence test that ...
1891 Dow process. The Dow process is the electrolytic method of bromine extraction from brine, and was Herbert Henry Dow's second revolutionary process for generating bromine commercially in 1891. [20] 1891 Tesla coil. A Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. Nikola Tesla used these coils to ...
December 20 – Preston B. Plumb, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1877 to 1891 (born 1837) December 29 – Marion McKinley Bovard, academic administrator, 1st president of the University of Southern California (born 1847)
Thomas Andrew Bailey (December 14, 1902 – July 26, 1983) was a professor of history at his alma mater, Stanford University, and wrote many historical monographs on diplomatic history, as well as the widely used American history textbook, The American Pageant. [ 2] He was known for his witty style and clever terms he coined, such as ...
The school of engineering was established in 1925, when Stanford organized the previously independent academic departments into a school. The original departments in the school were: Civil engineering, one of the original university departments (1891), later to become civil and environmental engineering. Electrical engineering, taught as a ...
Mark Lemley (A.B. 1988), professor at Stanford Law School, expert in patent law. David Lang (B.A.), professor of composition at the Yale School of Music. Lisa Lowe (A.B. 1977), professor of American Studies at Yale University. Jitendra Malik (Ph.D. 1985), computer science professor at UC Berkeley.
t. e. The history of higher education in the United States begins in 1636 and continues to the present time. American higher education is known throughout the world for its dramatic expansion. It was also heavily influenced by British models in the colonial era, and German models in the 19th century.