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30 unusual facts about Harvard University


Allen Shawn

He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, a Masters degree from Columbia University, and studied in France with Nadia Boulanger.

Armando Falcon

Falcon holds a J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law, as well as a masters in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX.

Charles Edward Munroe

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard, graduating in 1871.

Clarence Chant

He earned his Master's degree in 1900, and was granted a leave of absence to study for a Doctorate at Harvard University.

Domestic terrorism in the United States

From 1978 to 1995, Harvard University graduate and former mathematics professor Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski – known by the codename "UNABOM" until his identification and arrest by the FBI – carried out a campaign of sending letterbombs to academics and various individuals particularly associated with modern technology.

E. T. Klassen

Klassen never attended college; his only formal education beyond high school was advanced management training at Harvard University in 1954.

Emory Leon Chaffee

Emory Leon Chaffee (April 15, 1885 – March 8, 1975) was an American physicist and a former professor at Harvard University from 1911 to 1953.

Fred Moseley

Moseley was named an All-American ice hockey while at Harvard University in 1934.

Frederick Hovey

Hovey won the NCAA men's singles championship in 1890 while attending Harvard University.

Gacha Gacha

A super genius with and IQ of 200, she graduated from Harvard at the age of 13, and came to the Rose Corporation for a job as an S Class programmer.

George Blewett

He studied at the University of Würzburg in 1899 and received a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1900 from Harvard University.

Harvard Science Center

The Harvard University Science Center is Harvard's main classroom and laboratory building for undergraduate science and mathematics, in addition to housing numerous other facilities and services.

Henri Nouwen

After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, he went to work with mental and physically handicapped people at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada.

Irvine Bulloch

Filled with his mother and uncle's stories, by the time T.R. went to Harvard, he was already dreaming of writing a book on a neglected aspect of American Military History, role played by the US Navy during the War of 1812.

James W. Bryce

In 1937 Bryce was approached by Howard Aiken of Harvard University, who persuaded IBM to fund a programmable calculator which became the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), better known as the Harvard Mark I.

Ken W. Clawson

He became a labor reporter for the Toledo Blade newspaper, and was honored for his work there, winning a Nieman Fellowship to attend Harvard University in 1967.

Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower

Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower MBE (27 January 1913- 25 December 1997), universally known as "LCB Gower" in his writings, was the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the University of London and sometime visiting Professor at Harvard University.

Millard Powers Fillmore

He studied law in his father's office and attended Harvard.

Morton Halperin

He served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations and in a number of roles with think tanks and universities such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University.

New Spirit Party

It was founded and registered with the Central Elections Committee in October 2010 by Harvard University graduate Shpend Ahmeti, Ilir Deda, Director of the Kosovo Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED) and others, and supports Kosovo in becoming a new generation political state.

Posen Foundation

An academic advisory board reviews grant applications, which have included universities such as Harvard University, Brown University, Brandeis University, and The New School.

Ralph Wendell Burhoe

He attended Harvard University from 1928 to 1932 as a student of meteorology and climatology, though never completing his degree.

Sidney Spivak

Spivak was born to Jewish parents, Malick and Rose Spivak, in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and Harvard University.

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

In 2009, the foundation awarded the first Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences (a citation, a medal, and a monetary award of $250,000) to George M. Whitesides of Harvard University for his work in the field of materials chemistry.

Thomas Chrostwaite

A native of Ashley Borough, Mr. Chrostwaite was an 1898 graduate of Harvard University and went on to serve as a school administrator for several years in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

Tuesday's Children

The camp uses a curriculum designed by Harvard University Law School's Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program as well as a dignity model developed at the Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Viola S. Wendt

She secured a position as a graduate student in English at Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after receiving her B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1928.

William Augustus Hinton

He was the first black professor in the history of Harvard University.

William J. Abernathy

William J. Abernathy (21 November 1933 – 29 December 1983) was an US-American professor at the Harvard University Business School.

William W. Warren

Born in Brighton (now a part of Boston), Massachusetts, Warren pursued classical studies, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1856.


4776 Luyi

4776 Luyi (1975 VD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1975 by Harvard University researchers at the Harvard College Observatory.The asteroid is named for a town in the eastern Henan province of China that was the birthplace of Laotze, founder of Taoism.

A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times

Harvard University professor John Henry Wright was the editor and translator, while authors included Charles McLean Andrews, John Fiske, Heinrich Theodor Flathe, Gustav Hertzberg, Ferdinand Justi, Julius von Pflugk-Harttung, Martin Philippson, Hans Prutz, and Frederick Wells Williams.

Alex Kronemer

Three years later Kronemer went on to pursue a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies from Harvard University.

Alfred Rehder

Alfred Rehder (4 September 1863, Waldenburg, Saxony - 25 July 1949) was a horticulturist and taxonomist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Alice Goodman

She was educated at Harvard University and Cambridge where she studied English and American literature.

Barrie Unsworth

In 1961, Unsworth became an organiser of the Electrical Trades Union, and continued to build his career in the labour movement and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1966 to attend Harvard University, Trade Union Program.

Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship

In 2012, the college with the largest number of previous Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship winners currently enrolled as undergraduates is Harvard University.

Catherine Cesarsky

She graduated with a PhD in Astronomy in 1971 from Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass., USA), and for several years worked at the California Institute of Technology.

Daiwa Adrian Prize

University of Cambridge/Harvard University/Karolinska Institutet: Hugh Robinson, Nathan Gouwens, Hugo Zeberg, Rita Kalra

Dominique Moïsi

He was a co-founder and is a senior advisor of the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and the chairholder for Geopolitics at the College of Europe, the oldest educational institution in European affairs, in Natolin.

Felipe Osterling

In 1966 he attended as a visiting professor at the Universities of Notre Dame, Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia and New York.

Glyn O'Malley

He was a Guest Artist or Visiting Professor at a wide range of institutions nationwide, including: Harvard University, Austin Peay State University, Sarah Lawrence College, North Carolina School of the Arts, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Juilliard School among others.

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton took short courses for additional training at Harvard University; the University of London, England; the University of Michigan; Indiana University; and Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

Hydrothermal synthesis

George W. Morey at the Carnegie Institution and later, Percy W. Bridgman at Harvard University did much of the work to lay the foundations necessary to containment of reactive media in the temperature and pressure range where most of the hydrothermal work is conducted.

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

In 1998, Taiwanese American students at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University established the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association (BITSA) to serve the many campuses in the Boston area.

Jaipur School

Students have gone on to join Harvard University, University of Chicago, Cardiff University, Indian Institutes of Technology, National Defence Academy (India), and other engineering, medical, defence, liberal arts and business management programs.

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

He was a Taylor Lecturer at Oxford University from 1902 and was invited to the United States in 1907 to deliver speeches at the Hispanic Society of America and several American Universities such as Harvard University and Yale University.

Jean Arp

In 1950, he was invited to execute a relief for the Harvard University Graduate Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and would also be commissioned to do a mural at the UNESCO building in Paris.

Jerry L. Bona

Bona received his PhD in 1971 from Harvard University under supervision of Garrett Birkhoff and worked from 1970 to 1972 at the Fluid Mechanics Research Institute University of Essex, where along with Brooke Benjamin and J. J. Mahony, he published on Model Equations for Long Waves in Non-linear Dispersive Systems, known as Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation.

John A. Denison

Denison graduated with honors from Springfield High School and, like his father, attended Harvard University where he received his undergraduate degree in 1898 and his law degree in 1901.

Joseph Lekuton

He taught at The Langley School in McLean, Virginia, before leaving for Harvard University where he earned a Masters degree in International Education policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

June Goodfield

She was consultant at Harvard University's Department of Education (1960-65), Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Wellesley College (1966-69), Professor of Human Medicine and Philosophy at Michigan State University (1969-78), Senior Research Fellow at the Rockefeller University (1977-82), and Robinson Professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Jussi Hanhimäki

As well as his work at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Hanhimäki has held Visiting Fellowships at LSE IDEAS, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Harvard University.

La Pietra

He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wis., and a master's of education degree from Harvard University.

Leland Stowe

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Stowe also received the Légion d'honneur, the Military Cross of Greece, and honorary degrees from Harvard University, Wesleyan, and Hobart College, amongst other honors.

Loren Graham

Loren Graham and his wife Patricia, a prominent historian of education and a former dean at Harvard University, many years ago purchased a lighthouse on a remote island in Lake Superior and spend their summers there writing, studying nature, and serving as Coast Guard auxiliarists who have participated in many rescue operations of stranded and wrecked mariners.

Lucius Littauer

Littauer graduated from Harvard University in 1878 and was the school's first head football coach, guiding the Crimson to a record of 5–1–2 in 1881.

M. Lee Pelton

Pelton also holds, or has held, positions on several educational boards and committees: the American Council on Education, the Harvard University Board of Overseers, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Oregon Symphony, Oregon Health & Science University Foundation, American Association for Higher Education, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and National Collegiate Athletic Association among others.

Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov students represent such universities as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, UCLA, and many others.

Manoj Datta

He has visited Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT in the US, Imperial College, Cambridge University and Cardiff University in UK, Tianjin University in China, IHE and TU Delft in Netherlands and Waterloo and McGill Universities in Canada.

Marie Mendras

Marie Mendras was educated at the University of Essex, Sciences-Po University and Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University.

Michael Devitt

In addition to his tenured or tenure-track positions, Michael Devitt has held numerous non-tenured positions at the University of Nottingham, Macquarie University, Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Harvard University, and Sydney University’s Women’s College.

Model Congress

Many high schools will often attend national model congress competitions at universities such as the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

Oksana Antonenko

Antonenko holds degrees from Moscow State University in Political Economy and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (USA) MPP in International Affairs and Security.

Piney Woods Country Life School

More than 98 percent of Piney Woods' graduates go on to attend colleges, including Xavier University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, Smith College, Harvard University, Vassar College, Tufts University and Amherst College.

Precordial thump

James E. Pennington and Bernard Lown's cardiology group at Harvard University are credited with formalizing this technique in the medical literature.

Raleigh Ashlin Skelton

During a sabbatical leave in 1962-63, he served as consultant and Acting Map Curator at Harvard University in the Widener Library.

Social Science Japan Journal

SSJJ’s editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, and supported by the international advisory board members including Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (United Nations), and J. Victor Koschmann (Cornell University).

The Anatomy of Power

The Anatomy of Power is a 1983 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith.

The Economics of Innocent Fraud

The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time (2004, Houghton Mifflin) was Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith's final published book.

Theodore W. Richards House

The house was built in 1900 by Warren, Smith & Biscoe and was the home of Harvard University chemist and 1914 Nobel Prize winner, Theodore William Richards.

Thom Mayne

He has held teaching positions at many institutions including Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

William Cranston Lawton

He graduated from Harvard in 1873; studied at Berlin in 1882-83, the year before having been a member of the Assos expedition; from 1895 to 1907 was professor of Greek language and literature in Adelphi College, Brooklyn.

William Ernest Castle

Castle entered the senior class of Harvard University in 1892 and in 1893 took a second A.B. degree with honors.