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    scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin. It houses the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial. Founded in 1824, the Franklin Institute is one of the oldest centers...
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    The Franklin Institute Awards (or Benjamin Franklin Medal) is an American science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute, a science...
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    Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman...
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  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology (Franklin Cummings Tech) is a private college of engineering and industrial technologies in Boston...
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    Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of...
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  • Look up Franklin or franklin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Franklin may refer to: Franklin (given name), including list of people and characters...
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  • The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a physical sciences research centre devoted to developing new technologies for medical research and the life sciences...
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    The Franklin Medal was a science award presented from 1915 until 1997 by the Franklin Institute located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It was founded...
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    highest award given by the Franklin Institute. The award was established by Elliott Cresson, life member of the Franklin Institute, with $1,000 granted in...
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  • mercantile business. He established the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1848, and helped found and manage the Philadelphia School of Design...
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    director of the Maryland Academy of Science. He was secretary of Franklin Institute from 1910 to 1924. He is credited as a discoverer of the alpha ray...
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    William Franklin FRSE (22 February[citation needed] 1730 – 17 November 1813) was an American-born attorney, soldier, politician, and colonial administrator...
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    The Franklin Institute. (1962). Report of the Committee for the Preservation of the Liberty Bell (Report). Philadelphia, PA: The Franklin Institute. (reprinted...
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    Maillardet's automaton (category Franklin Institute)
    currently part of the collections at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. In November 1928 the Franklin Institute received the pieces of a brass machine...
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  • The Franklin Prophecy, sometimes called the Franklin Forgery, is an antisemitic speech falsely attributed to Benjamin Franklin, warning of the supposed...
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    Thomas Edison (category Recipients of Franklin Medal)
    Societies John Fritz Medal. In 1915, Edison was awarded Franklin Medal of The Franklin Institute for discoveries contributing to the foundation of industries...
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  • The Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) is an interdisciplinary humanities center at Duke University dedicated to supporting humanities, arts, and social...
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    The entry can be found here. "Benjamin Franklin Tour Around the Franklin Institute". The Franklin Institute. June 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2023. "Medal...
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    Francis Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read...
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    Jane Goodall (category Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates)
    Honour, Medal of Tanzania, Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence and the Spanish...
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  • Franklin Medal may refer to: Benjamin Franklin Medal (American Philosophical Society) Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) Benjamin Franklin Medal...
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    Eric Allin Cornell (category Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates)
    Elected 2000 R. W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America, 1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, 1999 Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts...
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    S.N.; war with Tripoli, 1804. Essex Institute. OCLC 3678627. "Benjamin Franklin Tour Around the Franklin Institute". June 2017.  This article incorporates...
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    Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Little...
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    2011, pg88, ISBN 978-0-9708050-8-9 "The Wizard of Menlo Park". The Franklin Institute. Archived from the original on 5 March 2013. Retrieved 24 February...
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    ending September 5, 1893 "Case Files: William S. Burroughs". The Franklin Institute. 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2019-06-30. "William Seward Burroughs | The...
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving...
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    The Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, located in the rotunda of the Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, features a large...
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    cam-based memory of any automaton of the era. When first presented to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1928, the automaton was of unknown origin. Once...
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    In 2005, Forbes magazine listed them as billionaires. In 1974, the Franklin Institute awarded Hans Liebherr the Frank P. Brown Medal. Hans Liebherr was...
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