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Leverhulme

American  
[lee-ver-hyoom, -yoom] / ˈli vərˌhyum, -ˌyum /

noun

  1. Viscount William Hesketh Lever, 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer, originator of an employee profit-sharing plan, and founder of a model industrial town.


Leverhulme British  
/ ˈliːvəˌhjuːm /

noun

  1. William Hesketh, 1st Viscount. 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer and philanthropist, who founded (1881) the model industrial town Port Sunlight

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The research is published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B and funded in part by the White Rose Collaboration Fund and the Leverhulme Trust via the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

Aviv Ovadya, a technologist and affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Per Engzell, a researcher at Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, says those weeks were a waste in terms of academic learning.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021

At the end of my third year, I was awarded the Leverhulme Research Award, to study popular art around Europe, and given £500 to live on for a year.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2020

In far different surroundings from these were born the careers of the living captains of modern industry and finance—Inchcape, Pirrie, Cowdray, Leverhulme, or McKenna.

From Success (Second Edition) by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron

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