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Dennis Rawlins, a former professor of physics and astronomy at New Jersey's Upsala College, appears to have come closer to the truth. It is most unlikely, he concludes, that either Peary or Cook ever reached the North Pole, 90° north latitude, 0° longitude. The odds against their finding it were too great. For the North Pole is a purely theoretical location hovering over immense seas of drifting, heaving ice. To Rawlins, Peary's claim that he made a beeline to the Pole over such terrain in-50° F. temperatures is hard to swallow, particularly...
Hubel was born in Windsor, Ontario in 1926 and received his medical degree from McGill University Medical School in 1951. Wiesel was born in Upsala, Sweden, in 1924. He received his medical degree from the Karinska Institute in Stockholm...
...reach for a suburban hinterland of open space and green grass and fresh air. Once it was that for wealthy whites. Long before World War II, it was a gracious, self-contained suburb with some mansions that verged on the palatial, imposing apartment buildings, a Baptist seminary and Upsala College...
...Upsala College...
Murdock is a Knight of the Royal Order of the North Star of Sweden, and holds honorary degrees from Upsala University, Harvard, Trinity, Middlebury, Bucknell and Vermont...