Yale University is a famous and respected American university. It was chartered as the Collegiate School of Connecticut in 1701. The college was first established at Saybrook, but was removed to New Haven in 1717, and the name of Yale College was adopted in honour of Elihu Yale who had made large gifts to the school. A new charter was obtained in 1745, and in 1887 the title of Yale University was authorised by the legislature. Research Yale University
James Dwight Dana was an American academic., He was born in 1813 and was a professor of Yale University. He made extensive reports, geological and other, upon material collected in a United States expedition to the Southern and Pacific Oceans, and in 1850 became associate editor of the American Journal of Science and Art of which he later became editor. Research James Dana
Danalite is a mineral of the helvite group found mainly in granitepegmatite and in hydrothermal veins. Danalite was first discovered at Rockport, Cape Ann, Massachusetts and was confirmed as a distinct species in 1866 and was named in honour of James Dana, a mineralogist at Yale University. Danalite is an iron-rich mineral and appears in octahedra, dodecahedra and as granular masses, and is grey, yellow, red or brown in colour with a vitreous or resinouslustre. Research Danalite
Sillimanite (fibrolite or bucholzite) is a fibrous silicate, somewhat rare mineral found as a constituent of gneiss and schist in metamorphic rocks, and often occurs with corundum. It has the formulae Al2SiO5 and a relative hardness of 7. Sillimanite was first confirmed as a distinct species of mineral in 1824 and was named in honour of Benjamin Silliman, professor of chemistry at Yale University. Industrially, sillimanite is used in spark-plugs for automobiles. Research Sillimanite
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