Final score, football, 2007: UT 25, Vanderbilt 24
Score (game not over) Nobel Laureates: Vanderbilt 7, UT 1*
* Note to the Deke: That one Nobel prize went to Dr. Peter C. Doherty (co-laureate) , Prof. of Veterinary Surgery UT for his work on how T-cells recognize their target antigens in combination with MHC proteins. Figured this was the sort of thing you were into in a major way and likely knew about Doherty years ago. Sounds important.
PS-All this is of small consolation. VU lost to Alabama, Georgia, UT this year in last seconds after being ahead most of game.
"It isn't how you play the game that counts, its who wins" Or did Grantland Rice get that backwards? Bad Bob
Keeping score UT vs Vu
Ron Mc-I'm counting it, but it is barely a qualifier as Al went to VU Divinity School for awhile (honest) before he decided to become a full time political BSer instead of a preacher. Thin line there. Guess he figured there was more money in politics than preaching unless you get into bigtime evangelism. Worked out nicely for him it seems. Net worth 200 million reportedly.
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Got to love Vandy, the Harvard of the South (sorry Duke).
But I have to take pride that one of my alma maters, the University of Illinois, has 24 Nobel Laureates. Keep in mind the Illini's John Bardeen is the only person to ever win the Nobel Prize for Physics twice, so if you want you can count him two times. When I first got to Illinois I met some of his last graduate students, he was smarter in person apparently (if that's possible).
This crushes one of my other alma maters, the University of Minnesota, with a paltry 19 Nobel Prize winners.
While my third alma mater, the University of Cincinnati, has far fewer Nobel Laureates (still more than UT though)--the most famous being Nobel Peace Prize winner and U.S. Vice President Charles G. Dawes--they have Neil Armstrong. Armstrong is a professor emeritus of physics at UC. He may come to speak to my wife's class about his experiences later this year.
So kudos to Vandy, even if Al Gore is a former student!
--Dr. Todd
But I have to take pride that one of my alma maters, the University of Illinois, has 24 Nobel Laureates. Keep in mind the Illini's John Bardeen is the only person to ever win the Nobel Prize for Physics twice, so if you want you can count him two times. When I first got to Illinois I met some of his last graduate students, he was smarter in person apparently (if that's possible).
This crushes one of my other alma maters, the University of Minnesota, with a paltry 19 Nobel Prize winners.
While my third alma mater, the University of Cincinnati, has far fewer Nobel Laureates (still more than UT though)--the most famous being Nobel Peace Prize winner and U.S. Vice President Charles G. Dawes--they have Neil Armstrong. Armstrong is a professor emeritus of physics at UC. He may come to speak to my wife's class about his experiences later this year.
So kudos to Vandy, even if Al Gore is a former student!
--Dr. Todd
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Doc, I visited NOLA marching with Vandy Navy ROTC band in Mardi Gras parades.
We were hiking across Tulane campus and a Tulane student was walking by with a tee shirt, Tulane U seal, "Tulane - the Harvard of the South"
I was with a buddy wearing a tee shirt, Harvard seal, "Harvard - the Vanderbilt of the North"
We were hiking across Tulane campus and a Tulane student was walking by with a tee shirt, Tulane U seal, "Tulane - the Harvard of the South"
I was with a buddy wearing a tee shirt, Harvard seal, "Harvard - the Vanderbilt of the North"
Ron, now THAT'S funny! I like it a lot.
Geez, very cool you have such an illustrious forefather. Do you mind if I make my students memorize it for their final exam when they have to ID the Dawes Plan?
And Steve V. had to bust my bubble by reminding me that Stanford has 27 Nobelists...so now I have Nobel envy again. And I'm too tired to go back to school, especially out west. Although if I had to do it over again, I'd become an entymologist.
--Dr. Todd
Geez, very cool you have such an illustrious forefather. Do you mind if I make my students memorize it for their final exam when they have to ID the Dawes Plan?
And Steve V. had to bust my bubble by reminding me that Stanford has 27 Nobelists...so now I have Nobel envy again. And I'm too tired to go back to school, especially out west. Although if I had to do it over again, I'd become an entymologist.
--Dr. Todd