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William Barton Rogers

American educator
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William Barton Rogers was an American educator and the founder and first president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He envisioned an institution dedicated solely to scientific and technical training. The outbreak of the American Civil War delayed MIT's opening until 1865. Rogers also collaborated with his brother, Henry Darwin Rogers, a geologist, on studies of the Appalachian Mountains.12

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