Abess' father, Leonard Abess Sr., was the son of Romanian Jewish parents who moved from his home in Providence, Rhode Island, to Miami to work as an independent auditor at First National Bank of Florida.
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Abess and his wife not only funded UM's environmental policy center, but they also founded a Floating Research Station in the Brazilian Amazon and the Abess Center for Environmental Studies at Miami Country Day School.
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One of Yellott's clients was Northrup, Inc. whose founder Leonard L. Northrup Jr. was introduced to solar technology by Yellott, and whose company went on to develop some of the first solar air conditioning systems and heliostats, under Yellott's on-going advice.
Leonard L. Bailey (born 1942), surgeon who transplanted heart of baboon into Baby Fae