About Edwin S. Burdell
Lived 1898 – 1978 (aged 80). Edwin S. Burdell was an American academic.
Edwin Sharp Burdell (February 2, 1898 – August 30, 1978) was the director (1938-1951) and president (1951-1960) of the Cooper Union for 22 years and the first dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Burdell left Cooper Union in 1960 to take up an appointment as the president of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He was subsequently resident consultant of the Cranbrook Institutes in the early 1960s, where his responsibility was to help coordinate the activities of the six Cranbrook Institutions.
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Who was Edwin S. Burdell?
dean at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
When was Edwin S. Burdell born?
Edwin S. Burdell was born on 2 February 1898.
When did Edwin S. Burdell die?
Edwin S. Burdell died on 30 August 1978.
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Edwin S. Burdell was an academic.
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Edwin S. Burdell was American.
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