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Warren W. Brandt

American chemist and academic administrator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ110911240 ↗
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Warren William Brandt (July 11, 1923 – July 4, 2017) was an American academic. He was the first president of Virginia Commonwealth University, serving from 1969 to 1974, and the eleventh president of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, from 1974 to 1979.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 2017, 1969, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923. For this dossier, Warren, Brandt and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Warren W. Brandt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.