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Thomas Vargish
BornFebruary 1939 (1939-02)
DiedSeptember 2023(2023-09-00) (aged 84)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1972)
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Thomas Vargish (born February 13, 1939) was an American scholar of literature. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College.[1]

Biography

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Vargish was born on February 13, 1939, in Granville, New York. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1960. That year, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford,[2] and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Vargish's brother, Stephan Vargish, was also a Rhodes Scholar.[3][4] He taught at Dartmouth College, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,[5] University of Gothenburg, and the United States Air Force Academy.[6]

Vargish earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 to work on a book on the religious background of Victorian fiction.[7][8][9] He has also authored books on relativity and cubism with Dartmouth physicist Delo Mook, father of political strategist Robby Mook.[10][11][12]

References

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  1. ↑ Vargish, Thomas (March 1980). "Why the person sitting next to you hates limits to growth". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 16 (3): 179–189. doi:10.1016/0040-1625(80)90030-X.
  2. ↑ "The Faculty". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. October 1965. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  3. ↑ Schaeper, Thomas J.; Schaeper, Kathleen (February 1, 2010). Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-369-3.
  4. ↑ Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (1995). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development.
  5. ↑ "Career Q&A: Richard Byrne '86, English - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County". July 30, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  6. ↑ Yumpu.com. "USAFA - United States Air Force Academy". yumpu.com. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  7. ↑ Graham, Robert B. (May 1972). "Faculty". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Retrieved April 8, 2026.
  8. ↑ "Thomas Vargish". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  9. ↑ Chell, Samuel L (Winter 1987). "Thomas Vargish, 'The Providential Aesthetic in Victorian Fiction': with response by THOMAS VARGISH with response by SAMUEL CHELL (Book Review)". Clio. 16 (2): 183. ProQuest 1300286980.
  10. ↑ Mook, Delo E.; Vargish, Thomas; Taylor, Edwin F. (September 1989). "Inside Relativity". Physics Today. 42 (9): 90. Bibcode:1989PhT....42i..90M. doi:10.1063/1.2811153.
  11. ↑ Farmelo, Graham. "They connect". New Scientist. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Intellectual Athlete | Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | October 1980". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | The Complete Archive. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
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