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People Who Studied Abroad #605:
Katharine Burr Blodgett, inventor and research physicist
From:
United States
Studied:
She spent her early years (from about age 3-10) living with her family in France. In 1926, she was the first woman to earn a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Image # SIA2007-0282
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![Fictional Character Who Studied Abroad #60:
Rajesh Koothrappali, The Big Bang Theory
Episode 6x17 - “The Monster Isolation”:
“So then I went to Cambridge, which was wonderful not only because it’s a good school, but because it totally looks like Hogwarts.”
[thanks to qbqrat for the tip!]](http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/File:S6EP07_-_Raj_closeup.png)
Fictional Character Who Studied Abroad #60:
Rajesh Koothrappali, The Big Bang Theory
Episode 6x17 - “The Monster Isolation”:
“So then I went to Cambridge, which was wonderful not only because it’s a good school, but because it totally looks like Hogwarts.”
[thanks to qbqrat for the tip!]
![People Who Studied Abroad #588:Peter Eisenman, architect
From:
United States
Studied:
He received master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).
[via NAFSA]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e36d6f0500ba8c1cfbd767dacfd1a460/tumblr_mik07mkR6e1qig6iso1_500.jpg)
People Who Studied Abroad #588:
Peter Eisenman, architect
From:
United States
Studied:
He received master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).
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People Who Studied Abroad #534:
Gordon Allport, psychologist (founding figure in personality psychology)
From:
United States
Studied:
He received his PhD in 1922 from Harvard, which then awarded him the Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. He spent the first year of the scholarship studying with the new Gestalt School in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany and the second year at the University of Cambridge.
People Who Studied Abroad #501:
Joseph Stiglitz, economist
From:
United States
Studied:
He won a Fulbright Scholarship in 1965 which allowed him to study at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). He then won a Tapp Junior Research Fellowship and continued his study at Gonville and Caius College, also at Cambridge.
People Who Studied Abroad #462:
Jennifer Egan, author and winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
From:
United States
Studied:
After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, she spent two years studying at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) thanks to Penn’s Thouron Award.
People Who Studied Abroad #454:
Muhammad Iqbal, poet and philosopher
From:
British India (now Pakistan)
Studied:
He studied at Trinity College, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) from 1905 to 1906 and earned his B.A. degree. From 1907 to 1908, he studied at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany and earned his PhD with a thesis entitled “The Development of Metaphysics in Persia.”
People Who Studied Abroad #444:
Niels Bohr, physicist
From:
Denmark
Studied:
He did post-graduate study at Trinity College, Cambridge (United Kingdom) in 1911.
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People Who Studied Abroad #432:
Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, electrical engineer, physicist and recipient of the National Medal of Science
From:
United States
Studied:
She did postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) as a Fulbright Fellow.
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People Who Studied Abroad #379:
Amartya Sen, economist
From:
India
Studied:
He received his B.A. at the University of Calcutta in India, then in 1953 he went to Trinity College, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), where he received a second B.A. an M.A. and a PhD.
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People Who Studied Abroad #376:
J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist
From:
United States
Studied:
After graduating from Harvard, he went to study and research at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). In 1927 (at age 23), he received his PhD in physics from the University of Göttingen (Germany).
People Who Studied Abroad #337:
Françoise Gilot, artist
From:
France
Studied:
She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in English in 1939.
Source: vincentmanngallery.com
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People Who Studied Abroad #311:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., literature scholar
From:
United States
Studied:
He won a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, which allowed him to study for his PhD in English literature at Clare College, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).
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People Who Studied Abroad #273:
Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
From:
Denmark
Studied:
She studied prehistoric archaeology at Girton College, Cambridge (United Kingdom) in 1960–61, studied at the Sorbonne (France) in 1963, and at the London School of Economics (United Kingdom) in 1965, as well as studying at universities in Denmark.
People Who Studied Abroad #233:
George Santayana, philosopher and writer
From:
Born in Spain, raised in the United States
Studied:
After graduating from Harvard, he spent two years studying in Berlin (Germany). He also studied at King’s College, Cambridge (United Kingdom).
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