Norman Hackerman was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin (1967 – 1970) and Rice University (1970 – 1985). Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the only son of Jacob and Ann Raffel Hackerman, immigrants from regions of the Russian Empire that later became Estonia and Latvia, respectively. Wikipedia
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