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The 159 pages that link to Harvard University, each with the reason it gives.

• Franklin D. RooseveltRelated: Roosevelt studied there, entering the social and political networks that shaped his early career.

• W. E. B. Du BoisRelated: His training there made him the first Black American to earn a Harvard doctorate.

• Leonard BernsteinRelated: Bernstein studied music there and graduated in 1939.

• William Randolph HearstRelated: Hearst attended Harvard before taking control of the San Francisco Examiner.

• BostonRelated: Harvard is part of the metropolitan region and a major influence on its academic economy.

• John Quincy AdamsRelated: Adams graduated from Harvard in 1787 before studying law and beginning public service.

• Norbert WienerRelated: Wiener earned his doctorate in mathematics there at an unusually young age.

• B. F. SkinnerRelated: Skinner earned his doctorate there and later conducted much of his research there.

• Charles Sanders PeirceRelated: Peirce studied chemistry there and later taught logic in its philosophical circles.

• Talcott ParsonsRelated: Parsons spent most of his academic career at Harvard, where he helped establish sociology as a major department.

• Bill GatesRelated: Gates studied at Harvard before leaving to build Microsoft.

• Steven WeinbergRelated: Weinberg spent much of his career as a professor there.

• Eugene O’NeillRelated: O’Neill briefly attended its graduate program in dramatic literature before leaving without a degree.

• FacebookRelated: Facebook launched at Harvard before expanding to other universities.

• Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRelated: Longfellow held Harvard’s Smith Professorship of Modern Languages from 1836 to 1854.

• Joseph SchumpeterRelated: Schumpeter taught at Harvard from 1932 and helped shape generations of economists there.

• Sheldon GlashowRelated: Glashow held a long academic appointment there and developed much of his later career.

• Alain LockeRelated: Locke earned his bachelor’s degree there and studied philosophy under William James.

• Lincoln KirsteinRelated: Kirstein studied there and began developing the literary and artistic networks that supported his later work.

• Robert FrostRelated: Frost studied there intermittently but left without earning a degree.

• Ivy LeagueRelated: Harvard is one of the league’s eight member institutions.

• Wallace CarothersRelated: Carothers completed his doctorate in organic chemistry at Harvard before joining DuPont.

• Alfred North WhiteheadRelated: Whitehead taught at Harvard from 1924 and wrote his mature philosophical works there.

• Benazir BhuttoRelated: She studied at Harvard before returning to Pakistan and entering politics.

• Jack LemmonRelated: Lemmon studied there and performed with the university’s theatrical groups before pursuing acting professionally.

• Pierre TrudeauRelated: Trudeau pursued graduate studies at Harvard after completing his law degree.

• Robert Burns WoodwardRelated: Woodward spent most of his academic career at Harvard, where he led a major organic chemistry group.

• Robert LowellRelated: Lowell left Harvard as a young man before pursuing poetry elsewhere.

• Thomas SchellingRelated: Schelling taught at Harvard for much of his academic career.

• Zbigniew BrzezinskiRelated: Brzezinski earned his doctorate there and began his academic career in the United States.

• Gordon AllportRelated: Allport studied and taught at Harvard, where he became a leading figure in psychology.

• Isoroku YamamotoRelated: Yamamoto studied at Harvard from 1919 to 1921 and gained firsthand exposure to the United States.

• Leonid HurwiczRelated: Hurwicz pursued graduate study at Harvard after his time at Chicago.

• Percival LowellRelated: Lowell graduated from Harvard in 1876 before spending years traveling and writing about East Asia.

• Benoit MandelbrotRelated: Mandelbrot held academic appointments at Harvard alongside his industrial research career.

• Cambridge, MassachusettsRelated: Harvard's founding helped establish Cambridge as a center of higher education.

• Darren AronofskyRelated: He studied social anthropology and film at Harvard before beginning his directing career.

• Dennis RitchieRelated: Ritchie earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees there.

• Hugo MünsterbergRelated: He led Harvard's psychology laboratory and taught there from 1892 until his death.

• James Russell LowellRelated: Lowell studied, taught, and held a professorship at Harvard.

• Mark ZuckerbergRelated: Zuckerberg and his early Facebook collaborators were students there when the service began.

• Matt DamonRelated: Damon studied English there and began writing Good Will Hunting before leaving to pursue acting.

• Samuel P. HuntingtonRelated: Huntington taught there for much of his academic career and helped shape its political science community.

• Saunders Mac LaneRelated: Mac Lane taught there from 1934 to 1938, early in his academic career.

• Stephen CookRelated: Cook completed his doctorate in mathematics at Harvard in 1966.

• Carter G. WoodsonRelated: Woodson earned his doctorate in history there in 1912.

• Harry Dexter WhiteRelated: White completed his doctoral studies in economics at Harvard.

• Muzafer SherifRelated: Sherif completed graduate study at Harvard and developed his research in American psychology.

• NapalmRelated: A wartime research team there developed the first widely used napalm formulation.

• Simon KuznetsRelated: Kuznets taught at Harvard during the later phase of his academic career.