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University of Pittsburgh

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The University of Pittsburgh is a public research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded in 1787. Jonas Salk developed the first successful polio vaccine there in the early 1950s, and its schools of medicine and the sciences have a long research record. The atlas links scientists to it where their cited articles say they studied, taught or carried out research there, whether in its medical school or in its departments of the sciences.

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1787 1
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Source Carl Gustav Hempel (Wikipedia)
Jonas Salk, Scientists
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Source Larry Laudan (Wikipedia)
Source Wangari Maathai (Wikipedia)
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Source University of Pittsburgh (Wikipedia)Lead, sentence 1
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The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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1. University of Pittsburgh (Wikipedia)
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    Pitt traces its roots to the Pittsburgh Academy founded by Hugh Henry Brackenridge in 1787.
  • In Group: United States Universities, Lead
    The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Wangari Maathai (Wikipedia)
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Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas, and a masters degree from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh.
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Carl Gustav Hempel (Wikipedia)
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University of Chicago City College of New York Yale University Princeton University Hebrew University University of Pittsburgh
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Jonas Salk (Wikipedia)
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University of Pittsburgh Salk Institute University of Michigan
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Larry Laudan (Wikipedia)
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University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Texas Law School, UNAM
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