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Franklin S. Cooper
Pages 64-69

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... Frank won the competitive examination in his county, which earned him a scholarship to the University of Illinois worth $210 for four years. For financial reasons, however, he postponed his entry to the university and spent a year teaching in a one-room elementary school with just a few students.
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From page 66...
... At the same time, he continued to pursue his interest in nuclear methods for radiation therapy at Haskins Laboratories and published several papers on this topic. During World War II, from 1941 to 1946, Frank served as a liaison officer and senior liaison officer in the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
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... Under Frank's guidance, researchers used the pattern playback to study how human listeners extract cues from speech waves and organize them into linguistic units. Several classic papers emerged from Frank's collaboration with Pierre Delattre, a linguist at the University of Colorado, and Alvin Liberman, an experimental psychologist at the University of Connecticut.
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... As president and research director of Haskins Laboratories for many years, his gentle encouragement engendered enthusiasm for research and led to direct associations with many academic institutions in the Northeast. In addition to his administrative and research activities, Frank served on a number of academic and scientific boards and committees, including the National Advisory Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Council, an advisory panel on the White House tapes, and for a number of years, the visiting committee of the Department of Linguistics of MIT.
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