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John F. Benton (1931
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1931 births 1988 deaths Haverford College alumni Princeton University alumni Reed College faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty California Institute of Technology faculty MacArthur Fellows 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub
John F. Benton (1931 Philadelphia
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– February 25, 1988 Pasadena
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) was the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, at the California Institute of Technology
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He graduated from Haverford College, with a BA in 1953, from Princeton University
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with an MA in 1955, and PhD in 1959.
He taught at Reed College
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and the University of Pennsylvania
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.http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/53/2/Obituaries.pdf
Awards
* 1985 MacArthur Fellows ProgramWorks
*''Self and society in medieval France: 1064? - c. 1125'', Guibert of Nogent, Ed. John F. Benton: Translator C. C. Swinton Bland, Harper & Row, 1970References
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1931 births 1988 deaths Haverford College alumni Princeton University alumni Reed College faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty California Institute of Technology faculty MacArthur Fellows 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub