In 1868, not long before Alexander Graham Bell departed for Canada with his family, Bell completed his matriculation exams and was accepted for admission to University College London.
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In early 1935 Blair met his future wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy, when his landlady, Rosalind Obermeyer, who was studying for a master's degree in psychology at University College London, invited some of her fellow students to a party. One of these students, Elizaveta Fen, a biographer and future translator of Chekhov, recalled Orwell and his friend Richard Rees "draped" at the fireplace, looking, she thought, "moth-eaten and prematurely aged." Around this time, Blair had started to write reviews for the New English Weekly
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At the age of 21, Francis Crick earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from University College, London.
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Kwame Nkrumah enrolled at University College in 1946, with the intent to write a philosophy dissertation on "Knowledge and Logical Positivism".
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