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.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges are private liberal arts colleges in Geneva,New York. They trace their origins to Geneva Academy established in 1797. Students can choose from 45 majors and 68 minors with degrees in Bachelor of Arts,Bachelor of Science,Master of Arts in Teaching,Master of Science in Management,and Master of Arts in Higher Education Leadership.
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.
Curtis F.J. Doebbler is an international human rights lawyer who since 1988 has been representing individuals before international human rights bodies in Africa,Europe,the Americas and before United Nations bodies. He is also an American lawyer authorized to practice before the courts of the District of Columbia. and in the State of Texas and several federal courts in the United States,including the Supreme Court of the United States.
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.
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.
Sir Martin Hairer is an Austrian-British mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis,in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He is Professor of Mathematics at EPFL and at Imperial College London. He previously held appointments at the University of Warwick and the Courant Institute of New York University. In 2014 he was awarded the Fields Medal,one of the highest honours a mathematician can achieve. In 2020 he won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
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.
Charlotte Cynthia Barnum,mathematician and social activist,was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University.
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.
