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New England [r]: Region of the northeastern USA consisting of the 6 states Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. ^[e]
Ivy League [r]: A group of prestigious, long-established American universities. ^[e]

Félix d'Hérelle [r]: (1873 – 1949) - A French-Canadian bacteriologist, and the discoverer of bacteriophages. ^[e]
V.O. Key, Jr. [r]: (1908 - 1963) An influential American political scientist. ^[e]
Serge Lang [r]: (19 May 1927 – 12 September 2005) French-born American mathematician known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. ^[e]
Stanley Milgram [r]: American social psychologist (1933-1984), best known for the Milgram experiment on obedience, but also for concepts such as the "familiar stranger" ^[e]
Edmund Morgan [r]: Emeritus Professor of History, Yale University, specializing in the 17th and 18th centuries ^[e]
Benjamin Lee Whorf [r]: American amateur linguist who created the '[Sapir]-Whorf hypothesis' on the relationship between language and thought. ^[e]
Paul Wolfowitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
C. Vann Woodward [r]: (November 13, 1908 - December 17, 1999) An American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. ^[e]
Fareed Zakaria [r]: Add brief definition or description
Philip Zimbardo [r]: Add brief definition or description

Milgram experiment [r]: Series of social psychology experiments, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. ^[e]