Word: knowleses
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Knowles won tenure as a chemist at Oxford, but traveled extensively to the U.S., visiting the California Institute of Technology, Yale University and Harvard during the '60s and early '70s.
In 1974, firmly esconsced in Oxford academia as his father and grandfather had been before him, Knowles opted for a change of scenery and accepted tenure at Harvard.
Jane Knowles said that when she came to America, she left a life as the spouse of an Oxford faculty member that greatly differed from her years as an Oxford undergraduate.
Timothy F. Knowles, youngest of Jeremy and Jane's three sons, was nine when his home shifted across the Atlantic. Knowles refers to his oldest son, Sebastian, Timothy, and middle child Jay as "one English, one American and one bilingual."
The first word Jane Knowles uses to describe her husband is "driven."