biography
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Duncan, Robert Kennedy
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| lived:
| (1868–1914)
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| biography:
| Chemist and writer, born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He went to the USA (c.1892), and after a period of teaching was sent to Paris by a magazine to report on the Curies' work (1901), and became a popular interpreter of science. In 1906 he decided to devote himself to the creation of a system of industrial fellowships at universities (notably at the University of Pittsburgh with help from the Mellon family) to integrate academia with the needs of industry. |
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