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- Birth nameFrederick Henry Burkhardt
- F. Henry Burkhardt was born on September 13, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He died on September 23, 2007 in Bennington, Vermont, USA.
- As a member of the New York City Board of Higher Education, helped put an open-admissions policy into effect at the City University of New York.
- Studied philosophy at Columbia University, received a bachelor's degree in 1933 and a doctorate in 1940.
- In World War II, served in the U.S. Navy and with the Office of Strategic Services.
- Chair, New York City Board of Higher Education, 1969-71.
- Founded the Darwin Correspondence Project, an effort to find and summarize all letters written to and from Charles Darwin.
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