Eugene Michael Lang was an American philanthropist who founded REFAC Technology Development Corporation in 1951.
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11 Facts About Eugene Lang
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Eugene Lang attended public schools including Townsend Harris High School.
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Eugene Lang studied mechanical engineering at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute from 1940 to 1941.
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Eugene Lang was married to Theresa Lang from 1946 until her death in 2008.
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Eugene Lang created the I Have A Dream Foundation in 1981, Project Pericles in 2001, and the Lang Youth Medical Program in 2003.
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Eugene Lang has made large donations to Swarthmore College, The New School's undergraduate liberal arts college - Eugene Lang College - and the Eugene M Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School, which is part of Columbia University.
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In 1986, Eugene Lang received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
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Also that year Harry Reasoner interviewed Eugene Lang discussing the school program for the news show 60 minutes.
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Eugene Lang's philanthropies, focused primarily on education, altogether exceed $150,000,000.
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Eugene Lang died at his home in New York City on April 8,2017, at the age of 98.
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