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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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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 • May 22, 2024

Prof Niamh Nic Daeid, director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, said officers made a careful record of the crime scene.

From BBC • Oct. 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

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

What I like about Leverhulme is his simplicity.

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

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