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University of Pennsylvania

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The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which traces its founding to 1740 and counts Benjamin Franklin as its founder. Its Moore School of Electrical Engineering built ENIAC, one of the first general purpose electronic computers, and its medical and chemistry departments have produced many Nobel laureates. The atlas links scientists to it where their cited articles place them on its faculty or among its students.

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University of Pennsylvania
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Chartered in 1755 by its first president Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin (Wikipedia)
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He pioneered and was the first president of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania.
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Joshua Fishman (Wikipedia)
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He attended the University of Pennsylvania on a Mayor's Scholarship, 1944-1948, earning a B.S.
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Herbert Callen (Wikipedia)
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In 1948, Callen joined the faculty of the department of physics at the University of Pennsylvania and became a professor in 1956
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George Henry Horn (Wikipedia)
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attended the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1861
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Edwin Conklin (Wikipedia)
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the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1908)
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof (Wikipedia)
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guest professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
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Michael Stuart Brown (Wikipedia)
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Brown graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962
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Elihu Katz (Wikipedia)
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Katz was emeritus Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania
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Benjamin Smith Barton (Wikipedia)
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The college and its medical school merged with the University of Pennsylvania the following year.
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Katalin Kariko (Wikipedia)
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University of Szeged Temple University University of Pennsylvania BioNTech
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Paul Erdős (Wikipedia)
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Victoria University of Manchester, Princeton University, Purdue University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, Syracuse University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Edward Drinker Cope (Wikipedia)
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United States Geological Survey Haverford College University of Pennsylvania
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Douglas C. Wallace, Wikipedia
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Stanford University School of Medicine, Emory University, Human Genome Organisation, University of California, Irvine, Academia Sinica, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Hideki Shirakawa (Wikipedia)
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Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Pennsylvania University of Tsukuba
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Drew Weissman (Wikipedia)
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Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).
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