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He was chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society from 1868 to 1869, and the first chairman of the Norwegian branch of the YMCA when it was established in 1880.
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The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.
Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.
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Judge John B. Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee.
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During that time, while studying at Kabul University, Massoud became involved with the Sazman-i Jawanan-i Musulman (" Organization of Muslim Youth "), the student branch of the Jamiat-i Islami (" Islamic Society "), whose chairman then was professor Burhanuddin Rabbani.
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Atle Selberg ( 14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007 ) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.
The name was really derived from the Norwegian blåhval, coined by Svend Foyn shortly after he had perfected the harpoon gun ; the Norwegian scientist G. O. Sars adopted it as the Norwegian common name in 1874.
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The school was known successively as Throop University, Throop Polytechnic Institute ( and Manual Training School ), and Throop College of Technology, before acquiring its current name in 1920.
The vocational school was disbanded and the preparatory program was split off to form an independent Polytechnic School in 1907.
In 1835 started to work at the Prague Polytechnic ( now Czech Technical University ), where he was appointed in 1841.
He was educated at Munich Polytechnic.
He taught chemistry from 1826 to 1831 at the Polytechnic School in Berlin until 1839 when he was stationed at the Polytechnic School at Kassel.
In this vein, he was initially a Computer engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( RPI ) in Troy, New York, but moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1990 and attended Emerson College, where he studied videography and graphic design.
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The thesis was widely discussed in academic circles and allowed him in 1922 to become a professor at the Lwów Polytechnic.
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It was planned in 1972 as a single central library but on the mergers of the Didsbury College of Education and Hollings College with the Polytechnic it became a central library and administrative centre for the seven library sites.
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The exterior of Vincent Freeman's house was shot at the CLA Building on the campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ( Cal Poly Pomona ).
He was then appointed a full professor of mathematics at Lwów Polytechnic in Lwów, in 1927.
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In January 2008 it was announced that students from Singapore would be able to gain degrees in retail from the University of Stirling in a tie-up with the country's Nanyang Polytechnic ( NYP ).
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He received an undergraduate degree in chemistry from the Copenhagen Polytechnic Institute ( now the Technical University of Denmark ) in 1920, and was appointed as assistant instructor in chemistry at the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
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