Vanderbilt University, informally Vandy or VU, is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, it was named for the shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who gave the school its initial endowment of one million dollars. It has six graduate and professional schools: the Divinity School, Graduate School, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and Owen Graduate School of Management. In the 1930s Ernest William Goodpasture and colleagues in the School of Medicine invented methods for cultivating viruses and rickettsiae in fertilized chicken eggs, and the biophysicist Max Delbrück joined the Department of Physics in 1940.
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is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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including the Divinity School, Graduate School, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Owen Graduate School of Management
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German biophysicist Max Delbrück joined the Department of Physics in 1940
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