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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a coeducational private university in Troy, New York, near Albany, founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer. |
 | | Rensselaer graduates developed or contributed to the development of such inventions as the cathode ray tube, the Ferris Wheel, the first practical automatic fire sprinkler, the microprocessor, an ultraviolet absorber used in sunscreen cream, ductile iron, the first graphics processor for the PC, and network electronic mail (including the @ sign in e-mail). |
 | | Her career prior to becoming Rensselaer’s president has encompassed senior positions in government, as chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; in industry and research, as a theoretical physicist at the former ATandT Bell Laboratories; and in academe, as a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University. |
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