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Education and student life. The Sheffield School innovated with an undergraduate course offering science and mathematics as well as economics, English, geography, history, modern languages, philology and political science.
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 Lawrence Scientific School, predecessor to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was founded in 1847.
The Sheffield Scientific School officially became a part of Yale College in 1945, and its legacy continues to pervade our modern Yale’s excellence in the sciences, social structure, academic and residential buildings, and even the Yale Scientific Magazine.
Scope and Contents. 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 ...
These days, all Yale undergraduates work toward bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degrees. But from 1852 to 1931, the university granted another undergraduate degree—the bachelor of philosophy (PhB), a three-year course of study in the Sheffield Scientific School.
The Story of the Founding of the Sheffield Scientific School, 1939 Russell Henry Chittenden (1856 – 1943) was an American physiological chemist. He conducted pioneering research in the biochemistry of digestion and nutrition.
SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL. 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.
