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William James McGill William James McGill
William James McGill 1922-97, American educator and psychologist, b. New York City, grad. Fordham (A.B., 1943) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1953). A specialist in psychophysics and mathematical psychology, he was professor of psychology at Columbia (1956-65) and at the Univ. of California at San Diego... Read more
Jewel Stradford Lafontant Jewel Stradford Lafontant
Jewel Stradford LaFontant 1922-1997 Lawyer, government official Jewel Stradford LaFontant became a key player in the fields of law and politics long before the women's movement gained momentum in the 1960s. Her father, renowned U.S. Supreme Court attorney C. Francis Stradford, carefully groomed... Read more
Sir Arthur William Currie Sir Arthur William Currie
Sir Arthur William Currie 1875-1933, Canadian commander in World War I. He made a distinguished record for himself in World War I as a brigade and division commander, particularly at Ypres (1915) and Vimy Ridge (1917), where he was knighted on the battlefield. Promoted to lieutenant general, he... Read more
Sir William Osler Sir William Osler
Sir William Osler , 1849-1919, Canadian physician, M.D. McGill Univ., 1872. Renowned as a physician and as a medical historian, he was also the most brilliant and influential teacher of medicine in his day. He was professor at McGill (1875-84), the Univ. of Pennsylvania (1884-89), Johns Hopkins... Read more
William J. Casey William J. Casey
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Sir John William Dawson Sir John William Dawson
Sir John William Dawson 1820-99, Canadian geologist and educator, b. Pictou, N.S., studied at the Univ. of Edinburgh. After serving (1850-55) as superintendent of education in Nova Scotia, he was from 1855 to 1893 principal of, and professor of geology at, McGill Univ., where he helped found and... Read more
James McGill Buchanan 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... Read more
Frederick Soddy Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy , 1877-1956, English chemist. He worked under Lord Rutherford at McGill Univ. and with Sir William Ramsay at the Univ. of London. After serving (1910-14) as lecturer in physical chemistry and radioactivity at the Univ. of Glasgow, he was professor of chemistry at the Univ. of... Read more
John Bright John Bright
John Bright 1811-89, British statesman and orator. He was the son of a Quaker cotton manufacturer in Lancashire. A founder (1839) of the Anti-Corn Law League, he rose to prominence on the strength of his formidable oratory against the corn laws . A staunch laissez-faire capitalist, and, with... Read more
McGill University McGill University
McGill University at Montreal, Que., Canada; coeducational; chartered 1821, opened 1829. It was named for James McGill, who left a bequest to establish it. Its real development dates from 1855 when John W. Dawson became principal. It has faculties of arts, science, dentistry, engineering,... Read more

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