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He taught at Haverford College and became chair of the physics department there in 1957, as well as working as a research collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Joseph Taylor, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, attributes his decision to study physics instead of mathematics to Lemonick's freshman physics course at Haverford.
The couple has one daughter, Annaliese Wiederspahn, a graduate of Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
He spent a year at a Quaker workshop at Haverford, Pennsylvania, and in 1941 began graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Harvard University, studying there under Richard von Mises with the support of a Gordon McKay Fellowship.
She disembarked at Marseille and reached Liverpool, England via train and boat, where the SS Haverford would finally carry her home to America.
The company is named for the Cheswold estate, the Haverford, PA summer home of AJ Cassatt, the 7th President of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Located just beyond Founder's Green, the house is situated directly next to Haverford's soccer pitch and across Walton Road from Gummere, which houses freshmen.
Hans Adolph Rademacher (3 April 1892, Wandsbeck, now Hamburg-Wandsbek – 7 February 1969, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA) was a German mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.
The first intercollegiate basketball game played east of the Mississippi River occurred in Ryan Gym (now a lounging area for students) in 1895 between Haverford and Temple University.
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Haverford's soccer team, the nation's oldest, won the first intercollegiate soccer match in 1905, beating Harvard College.
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In 1997, Karl Paranya '97 became the first (and only) Division III athlete to run a four-minute mile, clocking 3:57.6. The history of Haverford track also includes former team captain Philip Noel-Baker 1908, who later captained Great Britain's 1924 Olympic team upon which the movie Chariots of Fire is based, and became a 1959 Nobel peace prize winner years later.
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Haverford's current team has a heavy contingency from students of South Asian heritage, and the XI team regularly travels to Oxbridge for games.
The series revolved around two elements, the relationships between three generations of women and the bakery which the elder two owned and operated in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
John Darnielle, of indie rock band the Mountain Goats, wrote an impromptu song regarding a date with his first girlfriend that took place at the mall during a sound check at Haverford College in 2003.
Haverford and Bryn Mawr students can also take the Norristown High Speed Line to 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby where they transfer to SEPTA's Market–Frankford Line to reach Penn.
Grossman was an All State performer at Haverford High School, in suburban Philadelphia, where from a young age he would reply to the question, "What will you do when you grow up?" with the certain retort: "I'm going to be a professional football player." He was a varsity letterman in both football and wrestling at Haverford Senior High School.
Roberto Castillo Sandoval, Chilean author and professor of Latin American studies and comparative literature at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania
Felton declined the offer to return to his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania and pursue a career in business.
Sophie Lewis Drinker (born Sophie Lewis Hutchinson, 24 August 1888 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, died 6 September 1967 in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia) was an American amateur musician and musicologist.
Stephen G. Emerson (born 1953), American stem cell biologist and clinical hematologist/oncologist; president of Haverford College from 2007 to 2011; as of 2012, director of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
Ron Swanson is portrayed by Nick Offerman, who in this scene has attended a product release party for Snake Juice at The Snakehole, a club in the town of Pawnee partially owned by Tom Haverford, played by Aziz Ansari.
He joined the coaching staff at The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania as quarterbacks coach in 2007, leaving the team after the 2010 season.