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Jacob Bronowski, professor of mathematics and sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leader in development of modern scientific humanism, 22 August 1974.

Oscar James Campbell, Jr., William Shakespeare scholar and author of the Readers' Encyclopedia of Shakespeare, 1 June 1970.

Horace Clayton, sociologist and author of Black Metropolis, a study of the place of blacks in U.S. industry, 25 January 1970.

Francis Cornell, North Carolina native who specialized in educational statistics and helped to shape the postwar educational system in West Germany, 2 July 1979.

Margaret Craighill, medical college dean and in 1943 the first woman to be commissioned directly into the Army Medical Corps, 25 July 1977.

Godfrey Dewey, son of Melvil Dewey of Dewey decimal system fame; the younger Dewey was a promoter of the phonetic spelling movement and the...

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