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Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School , it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield , a railroad executive.
Learn about the origins, development, and impact of the Sheffield Scientific School, one of the first to combine science and liberal arts education. Discover how the Sheff School shaped Yale's academic curriculum, social structure, and campus buildings.
Learn about the history and mission of the Sheffield Scientific School, founded in 1854 and renamed after a donor in 1861. The School's Board promotes the study of science at Yale and reviews its educational activities annually.
SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL originated in two professorships established by Yale College in 1846: agricultural chemistry (John Pitkin Norton) and practical chemistry ( Benjamin Silliman Jr.). As the School of Applied Chemistry, it opened in 1847 under Yale's new Department of Philosophy and the Arts.
The Sheffield Scientific School — originally called the Yale Scientific School and informally “the Sheff” — was established in 1854, with the School of Applied Chemistry, formed in 1846, as its foundation.
The records consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, student records and papers, photographs and memorabilia, grade books, clippings, class records, memoranda, notes, a copy of the 1944 charter and by-laws of the Board of Trustees of the Sheffield Scientific School and administrative files documenting the history and ...
THESE two large and handsome volumes on the scientific department of Yale University begin with an interesting survey of the position science in education in the first half of the nineteenth...
