Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was an American academic and educator who served as the 10th President of Columbia University. Born in Sheffield,Massachusetts,he graduated from Yale University in 1828 and served in a succession of academic appointments,including as Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1856 to 1861. He assumed office as President of Columbia University in 1864,where he presided over a series of improvements to the university until his death in 1889. He was also known as an author of academic texts.
Antoni Zygmund was a Polish mathematician. He worked mostly in the area of mathematical analysis,including especially harmonic analysis,and he is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. Zygmund was responsible for creating the Chicago school of mathematical analysis together with his doctoral student Alberto Calderón,for which he was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986.
Sir Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics,among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Both of these books remain in print. The word vorticity was invented by Lamb in 1916.
Joseph Gardner Swift was an American soldier who,in 1802,became the first graduate of the newly instituted United States Military Academy in West Point,New York;he would later serve as its third superintendent from 1812 to 1814,and as chief of engineers of the United States Army from 1812 to 1818. In 1814,Swift was elected as member of the American Philosophical Society.
James Rood Doolittle Sr. was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from March 4,1857,to March 4,1869. He was a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln's administration during the American Civil War.
Gabriele Veneziano is an Italian theoretical physicist widely considered the father of string theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva,Switzerland,and held the Chair of Elementary Particles,Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France in Paris from 2004 to 2013,until the age of retirement there.
The Royal Indian Engineering College was a British college of Civil Engineering run by the India Office to train civil engineers for service in the Indian Public Works Department. It was located on the Cooper's Hill estate,near Egham,Surrey. It functioned from 1872 until 1906,when its work was transferred to India.
Michael Ellis Fisher was an English physicist,as well as chemist and mathematician,known for his many seminal contributions to statistical physics,including but not restricted to the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena. He was the Horace White Professor of Chemistry,Physics,and Mathematics at Cornell University. Later he moved to the University of Maryland College of Computer,Mathematical,and Natural Sciences,where he was University System of Maryland Regents Professor,a Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn was a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army and a United States representative from New York during the Civil War.
William Watts Folwell was an educator,writer and historian who was the first president of the University of Minnesota.
Arthur Sherburne Hardy was an American engineer,educator,editor,diplomat,novelist,and poet.
Arthur Gordon Webster was an American physicist who founded the American Physical Society.
Solomon Lafayette Hoge was a lawyer,soldier,judge and politician in Ohio and South Carolina.
Amos Westcott was an American dentist who served as Mayor of Syracuse,New York,in 1860.
Geneva Medical College was founded on September 15,1834,in Geneva,New York,as a separate department (college) of Geneva College,currently known as Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In 1871,the medical school was transferred to Syracuse University in Syracuse,New York.
Hallowell Davis was an American physiologist,otolaryngologist and researcher who did pioneering work on the physiology of hearing and the inner ear. He served as director of research at the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis,Missouri.
Fairfield Academy was an academy that existed for nearly one hundred years in the Town of Fairfield,Herkimer County,New York.
David Bates Douglass was a civil and military engineer,who worked on a broad set of projects throughout his career. For fifteen years he was a professor at the United States Military Academy,and after his resignation from the army he worked as a consulting engineer while holding academic appointments at various colleges and universities. He was the third president of Kenyon College (1841-1845),and when he died in 1849 he was the chair of the Mathematics Department at Hobart College.
Edward Kennard RandFBA,known widely as E.K. Rand or to his peers as EKR,was an American classical scholar and medievalist. He served as the Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University from 1901 until 1942,during which period he was also the Sather Professor at the University of California,Berkeley,for two terms. Rand is best known for his 1928 work,Founders of the Middle Ages.
Edward A. Lawrence,Sr.,A.M.,D.D. was a 19th-century American Congregational pastor and author. He ministered to congregations in Haverhill,Massachusetts,Marblehead,Massachusetts,and Orford,New Hampshire. He was also a professor of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral Duty at the Theological Institute of East Windsor,Connecticut,and wrote several publications,books,pamphlets,and essays.
