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Howard Hughes
American Howard Hughes was known as one of the wealthiest men in the world. In the 1950s he founded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to basic biomedical research and education. Between 1988 and 1997, HHMI funded over $530 million to support science education and research at all levels, from pre-kindergarten to postgraduate school.
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