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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 NetFACS project has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and is a collaboration between the universities of Portsmouth, Nottingham Trent, Lincoln, St Andrews and the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023

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

I began with “The Evidence Chamber,” a coproduction from Fast Familiar, an interdisciplinary studio, and the Leverhulme Research Center for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee in Scotland.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2020

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

Lord Leverhulme expressed his willingness to take up the project, but said that he must go to the public for a certain sum of money to carry it out.

From The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster by Begbie, Harold