Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, students at the University of Chicago in 1924, killed a fourteen-year-old boy to experience the thrill of murder. The prosecution aimed to send both Leopold and Loeb to the gallows but their attorney, Clarence Darrow, used the new science of psychiatry to save Leopold and Loeb from the hangman.
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Stanford White had designed Madison Square Garden, the Washington Arch, Judson Memorial Church, and countless other structures in New York in the Gilded Age. He first met Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl, in 1901, drugged and raped her weeks later, and in 1906 Nesbit's husband, Harry Thaw, took his revenge.
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The New York Academy of Sciences, established in 1817, has been a center of scientific research for more than two centuries. Its members worked to establish the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Botanical Garden and its publications, notably the Annals of the NYAS, have been influential worldwide. In 1907 the Academy undertook a survey of the natural history and geology of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and in the 1940s the Academy launched a series of conferences to herald the discovery of such antibiotics as terramycin and aureomycin. The NYAS celebrated its bicentennial in 2017 as one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific societies in the United States.
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