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5 unusual facts about Sheffield Scientific School


Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

He also bequeathed funds to the Sheffield Scientific School for a science and engineering building and to support two professorships in engineering.

Duane Lyman

He graduated in 1908 from Yale University 's Sheffield Scientific School where he studied architecture and mechanical engineering.

Eriogonum truncatum

The first recorded sighting of Mt. Diablo buckwheat was by William H. Brewer, the first Chair of Agriculture at the Yale University Sheffield Scientific School.

John Hays Hammond, Jr.

While studying at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, Hammond became interested in the new study of radio waves and he was taken under the wing of Alexander Graham Bell.

Mount Brewer

The peak was named for William Henry Brewer who worked on the first California Geological Survey and was the first Chair of Agriculture at Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School.


John Bell Hatcher

Before graduating from Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School in 1884, he showed a small collection he had made of Carboniferous fossils to George Jarvis Brush, who later introduced him to the paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh.

Louis Whitford Bond

After preparation at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, he took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific School within Yale University.

Stanhope Wood Nixon

He attended Yale University at the Sheffield Scientific School where he was arrested for assault in 1914 when he almost killed Edward H. Evrit with a large metal bolt.


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Leigh Page

He came to the Sheffield Scientific School “Sheff” at Yale in 1909 as an assistant professor in drawing and graduate student under Henry Andrews Bumstead.