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The University of Michigan Library is the academic library system of the University of Michigan. The university's 38 constituent and affiliated libraries together make it the second largest research library by number of volumes in the United States. As of 2019–20, the University Library contained more than 14,543,814 volumes, while all campus ...
The University of Michigan's campus in Ann Arbor is divided into four main areas: the Central Campus, the North Campus, the North Medical Campus, and the Athletic Campus (South Campus). The campus areas include more than 500 major buildings, [ 102 ] with a combined area of more than 37.48 million square feet (860 acres; 3.482 km 2 ). [ 103 ]
University of Michigan, 1906. Physicists George Uhlenbeck, Hendrik Kramers, and Samuel Goudsmit circa 1928 in Ann Arbor. Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit proposed the idea of a spin magnetic moment three years earlier when they were studying in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest.
Samuel Eilenberg, cofounder of category theory together with Saunders MacLane, whom he met at Ann Arbor, and winner of the Wolf Prize in mathematics; Milford H. Wolpoff, leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis for human evolution. Trevor D. Wooley Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. Salem Prize, 1998 ...
The Papyrology Collection of the University of Michigan Library is an internationally respected collection of ancient papyrus and a center for research on ancient culture, language, and history. [1] With over 7,000 items and more than 10,000 individual fragments, the Collection is by far the largest collection of papyrus in the country, and ...
Robert M. Warner (MA 1953, Ph.D.), dean emeritus, University of Michigan's School of Information (the former School of Library Science) 1985–92; professor emeritus of the School of Information; appointed sixth archivist of the United States in July 1980 by President Jimmy Carter; continued to serve under President Ronald Reagan through April ...
Harold Tafler Shapiro (born June 8, 1935) is an economist and university administrator. He is currently a professor of economics and public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Shapiro served as the president of University of Michigan from 1980 to 1988 and as the president of Princeton ...
The Labadie Collection became a part of the Special Collections Library (then called the Rare Book Room) in 1964. It is named after individualist anarchist Joseph Labadie (1850–1933). With the help of his devoted wife, Sophie, Labadie collected and carefully preserved a vast amount of literature on social movements from the 1870s to his death ...