Word: rumford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his occupancy of the Kirkland Street house, Eliot's position as an assistant professor expired, and, although he had hoped to be appointed Rumford Professor of Chemistry, Wolcott Gibbs was chosen for the chair. Eliot was forced to leave Harvard, and shortly thereafter became a professor at M.I.T...
...Khan Professorship is the first chair established at Harvard by a foreigner since the Rumford Professorship of Physics was founded in 1819 by Benjamin Thompson...
...exhibitions, one comprised of drawings and models of inventions of the English scientist, Count Rumford, and the other including a collection of German author Hendrick Heine's works have just opened here...
...Count Rumford, a title that Benjamin Thompson acquired through his service to the Elector of Bavaria, studied everything from biology to how to build a better fireplace. By careful study of air currents and the flow of warm and cold air in fireplaces he developed the throat, smoke shelf, and damper, which constitute the present non-smoking hearth...
Sentimental Journey. In Lewiston, Me., Engineer Frank E. Hollis. 75, retiring after 58 years of railroading with only one accident, set out on his final run to Rumford, collided with a car in Lewiston's outskirts, cracked into another at Dixfield, pulled wearily into the Rumford terminal four hours late...