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...Royall left the West Indies in 1732 to retire to his beloved Medford, Mass. Seven years later, he died and left his fortune—and his Caribbean sugar plantation—to his son, Isaac Royall...
...year-old man named Isaac Royall established a sugarcane plantation on the island of Antigua in the West Indies. Royall made much of his fortune from the Atlantic Triangle Trade, which dealt in sugar, rum, and slaves...
...Ezekowitz, who was a professor at the Medical School for 22 years, said. The deal with Merck, which is one of many between Harvard researchers and the pharmaceutical company, will play an important role in helping the University fulfill its public obligations, said Senior Associate Provost Isaac T. Kohlberg, who heads Harvard’s Office of Technology and Development. “Through this relationship, the public and the patients will benefit because it is only through this relationship that drugs are being developed,” he said. “It’s only through this...
Many great minds - Democritus, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein - took giant steps toward bringing the universe's lost unity out of hiding. In 1964, Peter Higgs, a shy scientist in Edinburgh, added his name to that list by coming up with an ingenious theory that gave scientists the tools to explain how two classes of particles, which now appear to be different, were once one and the same. His theory proposes the existence of a single particle responsible for imparting mass to all things - a speck so precious it has come to be known as the "God particle...
Last Wednesday, Arthur C. Clarke, the renowned science fiction writer, died at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Clarke, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998, is often placed in the pantheon of great science fiction Writers along with the likes of Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Ray Bradbury. The honor is justly deserved. During his 90-year life, Clarke wrote nearly 100 novels dealing with that strange, fantastic stuff called science...