A gift to Brandeis University providing for the crection of a modern science building to serve as a center for the study of the physical and biological sciences has been received from the estate of the late William H. Sydeman of New York, it was announced today by George Alpert, president of the Brandeis board.
To be named the William H. Sydeman Hall for the former Bostonian and prominent New York philanthropist, the two-story structure will be completed by the opening of the second semester in February, 1951. The building will contain the University’s major science facilities including the Breitman Physics Laboratory, Falk Nuclear Physics Laboratory, biology laboratories, science demonstration rooms, classrooms, Science Library and faculty offices. Mr. Sydeman, a Harvard University alumnus, died in New York on June 9, 1948, at the age of 61.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
