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Auburn University
Auburn University main campus at Auburn, Ala.; land-grant and state supported; opened 1859 as East Alabama Male College, reorganized 1872 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama; became coeducational 1892; renamed Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1899, Auburn Univ. 1960. It has technical... Read more
James McGill Buchanan
James McGill Buchanan 1919-, American economist, b. Murfreesboro, Tenn., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1948. A professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1969-83) and George Mason Univ. (1983-), he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his "public choice" theory that an... Read more
Sir George Cayley
Sir George Cayley 1773-1857, British scientist. He is recognized as the founder of aerodynamics on the basis of his pioneering experiments and studies of the principles of flight. He experimented with wing design, distinguished between lift and drag, formulated the concepts of vertical tail surface... Read more
Henrik Dam
Henrik Dam , 1895-1976, Danish biochemist. He identified vitamin K in 1934 and later investigated the role of vitamin E in nutrition. The 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Dam and to E. A. Doisy for their work on vitamin K. In 1946, Dam became professor of biochemistr... Read more
Hatfield
Hatfield town (1991 pop. 33,174), Hertfordshire, SE England. Hatfield was designated one of the new towns in 1948 to alleviate overpopulation in London. The plans for this new town were coordinated with those of nearby Welwyn Garden City . Aircraft, engineering, and electronics manufacture are t... Read more
Pomona
Pomona , city (1990 pop. 131,723), Los Angeles co., S Calif. at the foot of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1888. It is a residential, industrial, and commercial suburb of Los Angeles where citrus fruits and vegetables are canned and shipped. Manufactures include foods; paper, metal, and plastic products... Read more
Henry Augustus Rowland
Henry Augustus Rowland , 1848-1901, American physicist, b. Honesdale, Pa., grad. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1870. He was professor of physics at Johns Hopkins from 1875. Rowland is known especially for his invention of a dividing engine for ruling diffraction gratings on curved surfaces and f... Read more
University of Salamanca
University of Salamanca at Salamanca, Spain; founded 1218 by Alfonso IX of León, reorganized 1254 by Alfonso X of Castile and León. It has faculties of philosophy, philology, geography and history, sciences, economic sciences, psychology, chemistry, biology, fine arts, law, medicine, ... Read more
Othmar Hermann Ammann
Othmar Hermann Ammann , 1879-1965, American civil engineer, b. Switzerland, grad. Federal Polytechnic Institute, Zürich, 1902. He came to the United States in 1904 and was naturalized in 1924. He served (1925-39) with the Port of New York Authority and was its director of engineers from 1937 to... Read more
Islington
Islington , inner borough (1991 pop. 155,200) of Greater London, SE England. Islington, in the north, is mostly residential, while Finsbury, in the south, is highly industrialized. Industries include special and electrical engineering, printing, food processing, and brewing. Clothing, furniture, and... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Polytechnic"

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University better known...Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. In 1944 its name was shortened to Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and in 1970 its present name was...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N.Y.; coeducational; founded and opened 1824 as Rensselaer School; chartered 1826. It was called Rensselaer...
Iannis Xenakis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...chose to stay in Athens to attend the Polytechnic School and earn an engineering degree...s soldiers marched into Greece. The Polytechnic was closed. However, its students...with music, Xenakis returned to the Polytechnic in April to finish his engineering degree...
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Zamyatin studied naval engineering at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute from 1902 to 1908, and he made a living until...engineering classes, stay under the radar, graduate from the Polytechnic Institute and even teach there for several years. He continued...
Gregory, Anita (Kohsen) (1925-1984)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...Anita Gregory was principal lecturer in education at the Polytechnic of North London, where she taught psychology and philosophy...psychical research at the School of Education in the North London Polytechnic. She suffered from illness for a long period after the death...
California State University System
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Pomona (California State Polytechnic Univ.), Rohnert Park (Sonoma State Univ.), Sacramento...San Francisco State Univ.), San Luis Obispo (California Polytechnic State Univ.), San Marcos, Seaside (Monterey Bay campus...
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...his doctorate. In 1878, Kamerlingh Onnes moved to Delft Polytechnic where he became an assistant to the professor of physics...awarded his physics doctorate magna cum laude. At Delft Polytechnic, Kamerlingh Onnes composed a paper on the general theory...
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and engineering at the high school of Kronstadt and at the Polytechnic Institute of Petrograd (St. Petersburg), from which he...in 1918. The following year he became a lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute. He published six papers between 1916 and 1921...
Latvia
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...Orthodox. Latvian is the official state language. Riga Polytechnic, founded in 1862, became the first higher education institution...University of Latvia was established on the basis of Riga Polytechnic in 1919 when Latvia became independent from Russia. Contemporary...
Community Colleges
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...e., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), but these are not community colleges. There...divisions of their higher-education system (universities and polytechnic colleges or institutes), these are accessible only to individuals...

Dictionary entries related to "Polytechnic"

polytechnic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English pol·y·tech·nic / ˌpäliˈteknik / • n. an institution of higher education offering courses in many subjects, esp. vocational or technical subjects. • adj. dealing with or devoted to various vocational or technical subjects.
Engineering Education
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...itself into the first American polytechnic in 1850. By the time the school renamed itself Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1861, other polytechnics had appeared, including the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania (1853...
Centnerszwer, Mieczyslaw
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...became assistant to Paul Walden at the Polytechnic Institute in Riga. He worked with Walden...lecture on inorganic chemistry at the Polytechnic of Riga, where he was appointed associate...he became doctor honoris causa of the Polytechnic of Riga and moved to Warsaw, where...
Rudio, Ferdinand
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...then, in 1874, entered the Zurich Polytechnic to study physics and mathematics. From...returned to Zurich as lecturer at the Polytechnic; he was appointed professor of mathematics...until 1928. He also administered the Polytechnic ’ s library from 1893 to 1919...
Meshchersky, Ivan Vsevolodovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...at the newly founded St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute (now the Leningrad M. I. Kalin Polytechnic Institute), for which he had helped...University for twenty-five years and at the Polytechnic Institute for thirty-three. He was...
Nihalani, Govind
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...after the partition of India. Education: Attended S. J. Polytechnic, Bangalore, graduated 1962. Career: 1962–...Having learned all aspects of cinematography at the S. J. Polytechnic in Bangalore, and assisted V. K. Murthy for ten years...
Einstein, Albert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the Eidgen ö ssische Technische Hochschule (the Polytechnic) in Zurich, with a view toward teaching. After graduation...at the German University in Prague, in 1911, and at the Polytechnic in Zurich, in 1912. Then, in the spring of 1914, Einstein...
Fankuchen, Isidor
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...awarded him his second Ph.D., he joined the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where he soon became head of the...of crystallography and X-ray diffraction. By 1950 the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn had been turned into a teeming center...
Meyer, Julius Lothar
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...and director of the chemical laboratories at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic Institute. His final move, in 1876, was to T ü...to organize an emergency hospital in the buildings of the Polytechnic. Meyer ’ s T ü bingen years at last offered...
Bütschli, Otto
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...mineralogy, chemistry, and paleontology at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic Institute and in 1865 – 1866, at the age of seventeen...in a thesis for admission as Privatdozent at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic Institute. At the age of thirty B ü tschli was named...

Thesaurus entries related to "Polytechnic"

college
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus college • noun   1. a college of technology synonyms : school, academy, university, polytechnic, institute, seminary, conservatoire, conservatory. See table at school.   2. the college of physicians synonyms...
university
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus university • noun  the oldest university in New England synonyms : college, school, academy, institute, polytechnic, alma mater, graduate school.

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POLYTECHNIC SUMMIT AT UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STOUT SUCCESSFUL; WILL RETURN YEAR 2010
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/26/2009; 700+ words ; ...be the role of polytechnics," Jakubowski...that students at polytechnic universities should...announcing the Polytechnic Summit earlier...represented the polytechnics in the United States. Although all polytechnics share similar...strengths that the polytechnic representatives...
Polytechnics caught in numbers trap
Newspaper article from: The Press; 8/21/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...2004 phenomena of polytechnics hunting out questionable...Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology...revealed the Open Polytechnic had enrolled more...direct result of polytechnics claiming vast...Technology and Polytechnic of New Zealand...competitive, and polytechnics are ...
1000 polytechnics to start across the country.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 1/27/2009; 700+ words ; ...three crore per polytechnic from the Centre. The rest 400 polytechnics would be set...decision, the new polytechnics will be started...public-funded polytechnic," the official...two crore per polytechnic for 500 polytechnics. As one of...
Polytechnic set to benefit from changes
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 11/19/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...universities and polytechnics. ``As an institution...student, Nelson Polytechnic could expect to...changes, but polytechnics would be very...Dr Cretney said polytechnic students would...to ensure that polytechnic qualifications...prospective employers. Polytechnics would also be...
Polytechnic University launches $150M capital campaign.
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 6/4/1997; 700+ words ; ...Brooklyn was celebrated May 21st as Polytechnic University launched a $150 million...than 20 years ago. Construction of new Polytechnic facilities and the modernization of...setting. "Governor Pataki and I salute Polytechnic for embarking on this bold campaign...
Polytechnic accepts part of the blame
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 2/26/2000; ; 700+ words ; Nelson Polytechnic is accepting some of the responsibility for delays...New Zealand. Lucia Fell, a former president of the polytechnic's student association, said the polytechnic had not been facing up to its share of accountability...
Polytechnic job losses confirmed
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 7/9/1999; ; 644 words ; Another 15 Nelson Polytechnic jobs will be lost after the second wave of reviews of the polytechnic's operations were announced this morning...to apply for 29 new jobs created by the polytechnic. Nine of the disestablished jobs were...
After the poly phase. (Britain's polytechnics are ready to use their new-found university status to enhance, rather than lose, their strong vocational bias and contacts with manufacturing industry)
Magazine article from: The Engineer; 6/13/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...the British polytechnic system consists of 33 polytechnics in England...over but |polytechnic' causes confusion...example, has polytechnics that are in...Huddersfield Polytechnic, another of the founding polytechnics, says that...
Polytechnic's PromiseFund recruiting scientists and engineers. (Polytechnic University)
Magazine article from: Westchester County Business Journal; 6/22/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...Anthony, public relations director of Polytechnic University. "We must help women and...difficult time competing internationally." Polytechnic University's Promise Fund is addressing...New York City. Students who attended Polytechnic on Promise scholarships now work at...
FORE SYSTEMS: Singapore Polytechnic selects FORE Sy Systems for campus-wide multimedia network upgrade.
M2 Presswire; 8/12/1999; 700+ words ; ...August 1999-FORE SYSTEMS: Singapore Polytechnic selects FORE Systems for campus-wide...CAD/CAM network upgrade of Singapore Polytechnic, one of Asia's leading technical...first phase of its upgrade, Singapore Polytechnic wanted to build a network that is capable...