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title: "Sheffield Scientific School"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Scientific_School"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T03:51:10.717906+00:00"
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During the 1918-1919 reorganization of the educational structure of Yale University, the three years "select" course at Sheffield Scientific School was eliminated and a four-year course of study for those studying "professional science" and "engineering" was approved, while graduate courses were transferred to the Graduate School, leaving only undergraduate courses taught at Sheffield Scientific School from 1919 to 1945, coexisting with Yale College's science programs. The centennial was celebrated in 1947 with the Silliman lectures given by Ernest O. Lawrence, Linus Pauling, W. M. Stanley and George Wells Beadle.
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The first degree of Bachelor of Science was awarded in 1922 to the graduating class of the Sheffield Scientific School. In 1932, the School of Engineering was reestablished and Sheffield Scientific School engineering classes were transferred to the new school. In 1945, the Sheffield Scientific School resumed its original function of graduate level instruction in science. Undergraduate courses for the Bachelor of Science degree were transferred to Yale College, and undergraduate courses for a Bachelor of Science in industrial administration were transferred to the School of Engineering.
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This transition occurred gradually, through the influence of "aggressive, powerful alumni" (including Edwin Oviatt, editor of the Yale Alumni Weekly) who "took control out of President Hadley's hands and forced a radical reorganization of Yale". In 1956, the Sheffield Scientific School was terminated as an active school. The Board of Trustees still exists to oversee the Sheffield Scientific School property and meet legal requirements. The school's faculty is defined as teachers of science to graduate students under the Division of Science. Engineering teaching and research is now conducted within the School of Engineering & Applied Science.
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== Directors ==
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George Jarvis Brush (Professor of Mineralogy) from 1872 to 1898.
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Russell Henry Chittenden (Professor of Physiological Chemistry) from 1898 to 1922.
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Charles Hyde Warren (Sterling Professor of Geology) from 1922 to 1945.
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Edmund Ware Sinnott (Sterling Professor of Botany) from 1945 to 1956.
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== Notable faculty ==
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Charles Emerson Beecher, paleontologist, member of the governing board
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William Henry Brewer, botanist, first chair of agriculture, as well as a graduate from the first class of the school
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Daniel Cady Eaton, botanist
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Daniel Coit Gilman, geographer, helped plan and raise funds
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Richard F. Humphreys (1911–1968), physicist and author, president of Cooper Union
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Thomas Lounsbury, American literary historian, professor of English and librarian at Sheff
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Chester S. Lyman (1814–1890), industrial mechanics; inventor of surveying and astronomical instruments
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William Crosby Marshall (1870-1934), Mechanical engineer, Professor of Machine Design and Descriptive Geometry and author.
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Lafayette Mendel, biochemist
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Mansfield Merriman (1848–1925), civil engineering; author of "A Treatise on Hydraulics and on the Strength of Materials", 1877
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John Pitkin Norton, chemist, faculty member of Yale's department of education in applied science, which gave rise to Sheffield Scientific School.
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William Augustus Norton, civil engineer, founding faculty member
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John Addison Porter, chemist
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Charles Brinckerhoff Richards, engineer chair of Mechanical Engineering from 1884–1909
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Benjamin Silliman Jr., chemist, founding faculty member
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William Petit Trowbridge (1828–1892), mechanical engineering; published the first cantilever bridge design; Member, National Academy of Science
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Addison Emery Verrill, zoologist and geologist
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Francis Amasa Walker, economist, third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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William Dwight Whitney, organized and taught in the department of modern languages; member of the governing board
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== Notable alumni ==
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Joseph Wright Alsop IV (1876–1953), politician and insurance executive; father of Joseph Alsop
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Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844–1907), chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism
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Clifford W. Beers, mental health pioneer
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Jules Blankfein, Class of 1921, physician & financier; founder, Physicians' Hospital, New York; uncle of Lloyd Blankfein
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William Edward Boeing, aviator
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John Vernou Bouvier III, stockbroker and socialite; father of Jackie Kennedy, First Lady
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Chester Bowles, American politician
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Bradford Brinton, engineer; collector of fine Western art, which eventually resulted in the primary collection of The Brinton Museum
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J. Twing Brooks, U. S. congressman
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Malcolm Greene Chace (1875–1955), class of 1896. One of the founders of the Yale hockey team, American financier, textile industrialist, and tennis champion
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Henry Boardman Conover, ornithologist
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Arthur Louis Day, geophysicist and volcanologist
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Franklin M. Doolittle (1893–1979), Class of 1915, radio pioneer
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Charles Benjamin Dudley, chemist
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Isadore Dyer, physician
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Lee de Forest, electronics inventor
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Francis I. du Pont, chemist
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Pete Falsey, Major League baseball player
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Joseph W. Frazer, automobile magnate
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James Terry Gardiner, surveyor and engineer
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Josiah Willard Gibbs, mathematical physicist and physical chemist
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T. Keith Glennan, first NASA administrator
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Harold L. Green, chain store founder
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John Campbell Greenway, American mining and steel executive, General, U.S. Army
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Harry Frank Guggenheim, businessman, philanthropist
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John Hays Hammond, mining engineer, philanthropist, faculty member. He endowed a program at Sheff in mining and metallurgy and accepted a professorship. He contributed $100,000 for the construction of Hammond Laboratory, which is named for him.
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John Hays Hammond Jr., inventor, “father of radio control’’
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John Bell Hatcher, paleontologist
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Daniel Webster Hering, physicist
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Robert J. Huber, Michigan politician, businessman
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Tony Hulman (1924) businessman, owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1945–1977
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Edward Hopkins Jenkins (1850–1931), agricultural chemist; director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (1900–1923)
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Treat Baldwin Johnson, chemist
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Clarence King, American geologist and mountaineer
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Charles N. Lowrie, American landscape architect
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Duane Lyman, architect
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Othniel Charles Marsh, paleontologist
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Champion Mathewson, metallurgist
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Truman Handy Newberry, American businessman and politician
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Frederick E. Olmsted, forester
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Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr., U. S. Congressman
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William S. Reyburn, U.S. Congressman
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William North Rice, geologist and theologian
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Stanley Pickett Rockwell (1907), metallurgist and co-inventor of the Rockwell hardness test
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Pierce Schenck (1878–1930), business executive from Dayton, Ohio
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William Thompson Sedgwick, bacteriologist and public health scientist
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George B. Selden, lawyer and inventor
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Sidney Irving Smith, zoologist
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James Graham Phelps Stokes, philanthropist, publicist, and political activist
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Zhan Tianyou, Chinese railroad engineer, "father of China's railroad"
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Juan Trippe, founder and CEO of Pan American World Airways
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Yamakawa Kenjirō, Japanese samurai of Aizu Domain, member of Byakkotai, physicist, member of the House of Peers
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Thomas Yawkey, owner of the Boston Red Sox for 44 years
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== See also ==
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Austin Cornelius Dunham - major early donor
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
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Cunningham, W. Jack, Engineering at Yale, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, New Haven, Connecticut, 1992. ISBN 1-878508-06-7
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Pinnell, Patrick L., Yale University: The Campus Guide, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1999.
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Shimp, Andy, Sheffield Scientific School.
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Chittenden, Russell H., History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846–1922. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1928.
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Furniss, Edgar S., The Graduate School of Yale: A Brief History. New Haven, Conn.: Purington Rollins, 1965.
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Veysey, Laurence R., The Emergence of the American University. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
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Warren, Charles H. The Sheffield Scientific School from 1847 to 1947. In The Centennial of the Sheffield Scientific School. Edited by George Alfred Baitsell. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1950.
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== External links ==
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Yale Engineering through the Centuries |