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On the foundation of the Murchison professorship of geology and mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh in 1871, he became the first occupant of the chair.
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On 11 March 1922 the foundation stone of Aurobindo Bhavan, which is currently the main administrative centre of the university, was laid.
On Christmas Eve 1347, Edward III granted Marie de St Pol, widow of the Earl of Pembroke, the licence for the foundation of a new educational establishment in the young university at Cambridge.
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* On May 16, 2011, Kohl received the Henry A. Kissinger Prize at the American Academy in Berlin for his " singularly extraordinary role in German reunification and laying the foundation for a lasting democratic peace in the new millennium ".
On the other hand, if such reasoned conclusions are only built originally upon a foundation of sense perceptions, then, the argument being considered goes, our most logical conclusions can never be said to be certain because they are built upon the very same fallible perceptions they seek to better.
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On January 19, 2005, the philanthropist Peter B. Lewis resigned from his position as chairman of the foundation, expressing his opposition to Krens ' plans for further global expansion of the Guggenheim museums.
On and Murchison
With Murchison he read before the Geological Society an important paper On the Upper Formations of the New Red Sandstone System in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire ( Trans.
On 28 September 1969 a meteorite shower fell 2 kilometres south of Murchison.
On January 21 Hemingway chartered a sightseeing flight of the Congo Basin as a late Christmas present to Mary ; two days later, on their way to photograph Murchison Falls from the air, the plane hit an abandoned utility pole and crashed, with the passengers sustaining minor injuries.
On 28 September 1969 at about 10: 58 AM, near the town of Murchison, Victoria in Australia, a bright fireball was observed to separate into three fragments before disappearing, leaving a cloud of smoke.
On 20 June 1929 Sir Charles was involved in a railway accident following the 1929 Murchison earthquake.
On and professorship
On his promotion to the doctorate he went to Bologna, where he taught law for three years ; after which he was advanced to a professorship at Perugia, where he remained for thirty-three years.
On the death of Brown in 1820 Stewart retired altogether from the professorship, which was conferred upon John Wilson, better known as " Christopher North ".
On the revolution of 1848 he withdrew completely from political life ; and in 1855 he accepted the professorship of natural history at the Collège de France.
On the professorship of Aesthetics becoming vacant in 1872, it was taken as a matter of course that Brandes would be appointed.
On the restoration of order, having returned to Paris, he accepted a professorship of modern Greek established by the government, and held it until it was transferred to the Collège de France as the professorship of the ancient and modern Greek languages.
On the foundation of the professorship of political economy at Oxford in 1825 Senior was elected to fill the chair, which he occupied till 1830, and again from 1847 to 1852.
On the West Coast, she had a part-time teaching stint at the University of Washington and for 11 years ( 1982 – 1993 ) held a full professorship at Stanford University, where she taught in the Stegner Fellowship program.
On 10 December 1701 Newton resigned his professorship, thereby at the same time resigning his fellowship at Trinity, which he had held with the Lucasian professorship since 1675 by virtue of the royal mandate.
On the strength of reception of his work, Freire was offered a visiting professorship at Harvard University in 1969.
On poetry and the poetry professorship at Oxford.
On the death of John Rouse, Barlow was elected to the librarianship of the Bodleian on 6 April 1642, a post which he held until he succeeded to the Lady Margaret professorship in 1660.
On the death of John Bainbridge in 1643, Greaves was appointed as Savilian professor of astronomy and senior reader of the Linacre lecture at Oxford ; but he was deprived of his Gresham professorship for having neglected its duties.
On the outbreak of the Franco-German War, he resigned his professorship and acted for a time as correspondent to The Times in Italy.
On his return he took on the duties, for a short time, of the professorship of logic, for Samuel Burckhardt.
On account of ill health he left his professorship and retired from business in 1880 and went to Europe.
On the other hand, the most notable opponent of general relativity in the Finnish scientific world was Hjalmar Mellin, the previous rector of the Helsinki University of Technology where Nordström held professorship.
On August 25, 1609, he was given a professorship in philosophy at the University of Padua.
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