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Andrew Dickson White ( November 7 , 1832  November 4 , 1918 ) was an American historian and educator , who was the cofounder of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades . He was known for expanding the scope of college curriculae . A politician , he had served as state senator in ___MASK67___ . He was later appointed as a US diplomat to Germany and Russia , among other responsibilities . Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity . This covers the ancient Mediterranean world , particularly ancient ___MASK81___ and Rome . It encompasses the study of ancient languages , literature , philosophy , history , and archaeology . Traditionally in the West , the study of the Greek and ___MASK79___ classics was considered one of the cornerstones of the humanities and a necessary part of a rounded education . Since the 20th century , however , Classics is no longer a part of a typical elite education . The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States . The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context . The eight institutions are Brown University , ___MASK28___ University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , the University of Pennsylvania , Princeton University , and Yale University . The term " Ivy League " has connotations of academic excellence , selectivity in admissions , and social elitism . Ezra Cornell ( January 11 , 1807  December 9 , 1874 ) was an American businessman , politician , philanthropist and educational administrator . He was the founder of Western ___MASK82___ and a co - founder of Cornell University . He also served as President of the ___MASK67___ Agriculture Society and as a ___MASK67___ state Senator . Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and federal land - grant doctoral university located in ___MASK64___ , New York . Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White , the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge  from the classics to the sciences , and from the theoretical to the applied . These ideals , unconventional for the time , are captured in Cornell ' s motto , a popular 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation : " I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study ." Gamma ray ( also called gamma radiation ), denoted by the lower - case Greek letter gamma (  or formula_1 ), is penetrating electromagnetic radiation of a kind arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei . It consists of photons in the highest observed range of photon energy . Paul Villard , a French chemist and physicist , discovered gamma radiation in 1900 while studying radiation emitted by radium . In 1903 , Ernest ___MASK5___ named this radiation " gamma rays ". ___MASK5___ had previously discovered two other types of radioactive decay , which he named alpha and beta rays . Science is a systematic ___MASK49___ that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe . Alpha particles consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium nucleus . They are generally produced in the process of alpha decay , but may also be produced in other ways . Alpha particles are named after the first letter in the Greek alphabet ,  . The symbol for the alpha particle is  or  . Because they are identical to helium nuclei , they are also sometimes written as or indicating a helium ion with a + 2 charge ( missing its two electrons ). If the ion gains electrons from its environment , the alpha particle can be written as a ___MASK3___ ( electrically neutral ) helium atom . Neutron activation is the process in which neutron radiation induces radioactivity in materials , and occurs when atomic nuclei capture free neutrons , becoming heavier and entering excited states . The excited nucleus often decays immediately by emitting gamma rays , or particles such as beta particles , alpha particles , fission products and neutrons ( in nuclear fission ). Thus , the process of neutron capture , even after any intermediate decay , often results in the formation of an unstable activation product . Such radioactive nuclei can exhibit half - lives ranging from small fractions of a second to many years . David Delano Clark ( February 10 , 1924 -- December 22 , 1997 ) was a nuclear physicist best known for his work at Cornell University building nuclear reactors and using them to perform neutron activation analysis . ___MASK64___ is a city in the Southern Tier - Finger Lakes region of New York . It is the seat of Tompkins County , as well as the largest community in the ___MASK64___ - Tompkins County metropolitan area . This area contains the municipalities of the Town of ___MASK64___ , the village of Cayuga Heights , and other towns and villages in Tompkins County . The city of ___MASK64___ is located on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake , in Central New York . It is named for the Greek island of ___MASK64___ .