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Duke spends more than $1 billion per year on research. [14] As of 2024, 16 Nobel laureates and 3 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university. Duke alumni also include 50 Rhodes Scholars. Duke is the alma mater of one president of the United States (Richard Nixon) and 14 living billionaires. [15]
This list of Duke University people includes alumni, faculty, presidents, and major philanthropists of Duke University, which includes three undergraduate and ten graduate schools. The undergraduate schools include Trinity College of Arts and Sciences , Pratt School of Engineering , Sanford School of Public Policy , and Duke Kunshan University .
Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility.As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes.
In the Peerage of England, the title of duke was created 74 times (using 40 different titles: the rest were recreations).Three times a woman was created a duchess in her own right; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, chief mistress of Charles II of England, Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wife of Charles II's eldest illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, and Cecilia Underwood ...
Fleishman began his career at Duke in 1971, when former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford, who had then become university president, enlisted him to create what is now known as the Sanford School ...
Duke, in the United Kingdom, is the highest-ranking hereditary title in all five peerages of the British Isles.A duke thus outranks all other holders of titles of nobility (marquess, earl, viscount and baron or lord of parliament).
The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949 (1993) Durden, Robert F. "Donnybrook at Duke: The Gross-Edens Affair of 1960: Part I." North Carolina Historical Review 71.3 (1994): 331-357. Gifford, James F. Jr. Undergraduate Medical Education and the Elective System: Experience with the Duke Curriculum, 1966 – 1975 (Duke University Press, 1978).
Though he is best known for founding Duke’s public policy program, Fleishman’s former colleague described him as a “multifaceted diamond.”