Teacher Melvil Dewey

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Melvil Dewey

Living place: New York

Birthday: 10-12-1851

Global rank: #54305

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Who is Teacher Melvil Dewey?
American librarian and educator best known for inventing the Dewey Decimal system of library classification.
His classification system uses three-digit Arabic numerals for the main class, with decimals as extended for more specificity.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He attended Amherst College, to which he belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon, and from where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1874 and a master's degree in 1877.

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He had one son, Godfrey, with his first wife, Annie Godfrey.

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National Medal of Science winner Carl Woese also attended Amherst College.

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When was Teacher Melvil Dewey born?
Melvil Dewey was born in 10-12-1851, death year is , at the age of 173.
Where is Teacher Melvil Dewey's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Melvil Dewey was born in New York, . is a Teacher, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Melvil Dewey's global rank is 54305 and whose rank is 116 in list of famous Teacher.
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Events in 1851 and 10-12

Birthday Melvil Dewey (10-12) in history

  • Day 10-12 year 1817: Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
  • Day 10-12 year 1869: The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.
  • Day 10-12 year 1901: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
  • Day 10-12 year 1948: The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
  • Day 10-12 year 1950: Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Day 10-12 year 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Day 10-12 year 1999: Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
  • Day 10-12 year 2004: A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.
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