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    Benjamin Franklin

    American polymath and statesman (–)

    "Ben Franklin" redirects here. For other uses, see Benjamin Franklin (disambiguation).

    Benjamin Franklin

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    Portrait by Joseph Duplessis,

    In office
    October 18, &#;– November 5,
    Vice President
    Preceded byJohn Dickinson
    Succeeded byThomas Mifflin
    In office
    September 28, &#;– April 3,
    Appointed byCongress of the Confederation
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byJonathan Russell
    In office
    March 23, &#;– May 17,
    Appointed byContinental Congress
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byThomas Jefferson
    In office
    July 26, &#;– November 7,
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byRichard Bache
    In office
    May &#;– October
    In office
    August 10, &#;– January 31,
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byVacant
    In office
    May &#;– October
    Preceded

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    The Franklin Institute Awards

    Since , The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia has honored the legacy of Benjamin Franklin bygd presenting awards for outstanding achievements in science, engineering, and industry.

    As the oldest comprehensive science and technology awards schema in the United States, The Franklin Institute Awards Program has recognized more than 2, of the most pioneering scientists, engineers, inventors, and innovators from across the globe.

    Its history documents the course of human upptäckt and advancement through the past two centuries—from the diesel engine to the Mars rover, from the typewriter to the fängelse phone, and from x-ray technology to genome editing. Previous laureates include Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Pierre and Marie Curie, högsta Planck, Orville Wright, Albert Einstein, namn Hubble, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ruth Patrick, Jacques Cousteau, Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, Gordon Moore, Shuji Nakamura, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Blackburn, Bill Gates, Jim West

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    Benjamin Franklin (book)

    book by Carl Van Doren

    Benjamin Franklin is a non-fiction biography written by literary critic and biographer Carl Van Doren. The book was originally published in by Viking Press; it is an authoritative telling of Franklin's life that makes heavy use of his own autobiography and his later papers and essays. The book was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.[1] The book received critical acclaim upon release and has been re-released in numerous editions.

    Background

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    Van Doren signed a deal with Viking and received an advance of $3, to complete his biography on Benjamin Franklin. Van Doren travelled up and down New England visiting various institutions that housed Franklin's papers to research the book, including the archives at the American Philosophical Society, University of Philadelphia, along with Harvard and Yale University among others. He spent nearly every day exploring these archives for two years searching f