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.

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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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Example Sentences

"External and substance-related causes are most important because often that's what people die of in this age group," says Antonino Polizzi, researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford.

From BBC

The study was produced as part of a £1 million Research Leadership Awards grant from the Leverhulme Trust.

From Science Daily

He is also Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Co-Director of AIChemy, a national research hub for the use of artificial intelligence in chemistry.

From Science Daily

AI ethicists from Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence outline three design scenarios for platforms that could emerge as part of the developing "digital afterlife industry," to show the potential consequences of careless design in an area of AI they describe as "high risk."

From Science Daily

The study was funded by the Leverhulme Trust and is part of a collaborative project between the University of Birmingham, the Natural History Museum, and the University of Bristol, in the UK, and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, in the Netherlands.

From Science Daily