Dr. Robert Allison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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Then at the end of 1776, when things are going badly for the Americans in the war, they've been kicked out of New York.
The war itself seems to be a disaster.
Franklin goes off to Europe, to France with his two grandsons.
The rest is history.
No, they were called natural philosophers.
In fact, the first real American, well, we can have an argument of who was the first.
This is probably a group that has lots of candidates for the first.
I will say the first professor at Harvard to teach what we call science was a fellow named John Winthrop.
who is the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
and Winthrop was one of the real thinkers about this.
He was a brilliant math teacher.
By the way, he was given tenure at Harvard.
He was given a named professorship at Harvard when he was 25 years old.
Just like today.
He had a heavier teaching load than a professor has today.
That is pretty much what was going on.
After Winthrop and Franklin, probably the next guy is David Rittenhouse.
And Rittenhouse makes a clock.
That is, he's a guy who knows how to do that, to work with his hands.
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