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Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, a railroad executive. The school was incorporated in 1871.
SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL originated in two professorships established by Yale College in 1846: agricultural chemistry (John Pitkin Norton) and practical chemistry ( Benjamin Silliman Jr.). As the School of Applied Chemistry, it opened in 1847 under Yale's new Department of Philosophy and the Arts.
The Sheffield Scientific School officially became a part of Yale College in 1945, and its legacy continues to pervade our modern Yale’s excellence in the sciences, social structure, academic and residential buildings, and even the Yale Scientific Magazine.
Scope and Contents. The records consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, student records and papers, photographs and memorabilia, grade books, clippings, class records, memoranda, notes, a copy of the 1944 charter and by-laws of the Board of Trustees of the Sheffield Scientific School and administrative files documenting ...
FOUNDING OF THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL By JOHN F. FULTON and ELIZABETH H. THOMSON School of Medicine, Yale University NEARLY a hundred years have passed since Benjamin Silliman closed the door of his laboratory for the last time and turned over his duties to his successors. He died a distinguished man, well
instruction soon to be offered by the Sheffield Scientific School. It was the beginning, not only of the future Scientific School, but also of post-graduate education in America. It was an im-portant step in the evolution of our university education. The appointment of John P. Norton and Ben-jamin Silliman, Jr., both chemists, with assign-
The Sheffield Scientific School — originally called the Yale Scientific School and informally “the Sheff” — was established in 1854, with the School of Applied Chemistry, formed in 1846, as its foundation.
