John William Sterling ( May 12, 1844 - July 5, 1918 ) is an American corporate lawyer, one of the largest contributors to Yale University .
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| Date of Birth | May 12, 1844 |
| Place of Birth | Stratford , Connecticut , USA |
| Date of death | July 5, 1918 ( 74) |
| A place of death | Cozapacal , Quebec , Canada |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Occupation | corporate lawyer, philanthropist |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Yale University
- 3 Stirling Memorial Library
- 4 List of some Sterling professors
Biography
John William Sterling was born in Stratford , Connecticut . In 1864 he graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree, was a member of the Skull and Bones Society. Three years later he was admitted to the bar. He studied at the law school of Columbia University , where in 1874 he received a master's degree, and in 1893 doctors of law.
Since 1871, a partner in the New York law firm Shearman & Sterling , whose clients were the Rockefeller and Standard Oil family, Henry Ford , Jay Gould .
He was buried in the Woodlon cemetery .
Yale University
According to Stirling’s will, all money received from the sale of his property should be transferred to Yale , for the construction of “at least one durable, useful and architecturally beautiful building, in which his love for his alma mater will be embodied” and the creation of a personalized professorship in the University.
As a result, the university received about $ 18 million (the equivalent for 2011 is more than $ 200 million). At that time, it was the largest amount ever donated to a higher education institution. With these funds, several buildings were built at Yale University (the Stirling Memorial Library building, the Yale School of Law , the postgraduate department building, one of the buildings of the Yale Medical School) and a large personal professorship was established (27 permanent professorships).
Stirling Memorial Library Building
The building was originally designed by architect Bertram Goodhue (died in 1924), after his death - by James Rogers. The library building is made in the image of a Gothic cathedral. Glass stained-glass windows were made by artist Owen Bonavela. Construction work was completed in 1931. The library has 8 floors and 15 levels (with its own category of books).
For unobstructed visibility of the library from the street (College Street), Berkeley College of Yale University underwent reconstruction, as a result of which the college territory was reduced and divided into two parts.
In 1971, an underground tunnel was laid between the Stirling Memorial Library and the Bass Library .
The library is featured in the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), although the action in the film takes place at Harvard University .
List of Some Sterling Professors
- Bloom, Harold - American historian and theorist of culture, literary critic
- Dahl, Robert - American political scientist and sociologist
- Kagan, Donald - American historian, known for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War
- Linz, Juan - American Political Scientist
- Nordhouse, William - American economist
- Sidney Altman is an American molecular biologist of Canadian origin, a 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Pelican, Yaroslav - American historian of Christianity
- Rosenthal, Franz - American Orientalist of German descent, a specialist in the field of Semitic languages , Arabic literature
- Spence, Jonathan - an English historian, a specialist in China
- Steitz, Thomas - American crystallographic scientist, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Tobin, James - American economist, 1981 Nobel Laureate in Economics
- Hull, Clark Leonard - American Psychologist
- Childs, Brevard - American theologian, professor
- Schiller, Robert - American economist, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economics