Information:  - Goldwin Smith (13 August 1823  7 June 1910) was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada.  - Ithaca is a city in the Southern Tier-Finger Lakes region of New York. It is the seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca-Tompkins County metropolitan area. This area contains the municipalities of the Town of Ithaca, the village of Cayuga Heights, and other towns and villages in Tompkins County. The city of Ithaca is located on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York. It is named for the Greek island of Ithaca.  - Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.  - The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The term "Ivy League" has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.  - Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and federal land-grant doctoral university located in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledgefrom the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, a popular 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."  - Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. This covers the ancient Mediterranean world, particularly ancient Greece and Rome. It encompasses the study of ancient languages, literature, philosophy, history, and archaeology. Traditionally in the West, the study of the Greek and Roman classics was considered one of the cornerstones of the humanities and a necessary part of a rounded education. Since the 20th century, however, Classics is no longer a part of a typical elite education.  - Ezra Cornell (January 11, 1807  December 9, 1874) was an American businessman, politician, philanthropist and educational administrator. He was the founder of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University. He also served as President of the New York Agriculture Society and as a New York state Senator.  - Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832  November 4, 1918) was an American historian and educator, who was the cofounder of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curriculae. A politician, he had served as state senator in New York. He was later appointed as a US diplomat to Germany and Russia, among other responsibilities.  - Henry Edward Guerlac ( June 14 , 1910 -- May 29 , 1985 ) was an American historian of science . He taught at Cornell University where he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of History and a member of the Department of History . Guerlac earned his PhD in European history from Harvard in 1941 . During WWII , he worked in the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where Marie Boas Hall assisted him in writing `` the history of the laboratory and of the operational use of radar during the war . '' He was awarded the Pfizer Award in 1959 by the History of Science Society for his book Lavoisier : The Crucial Year , and was given the Dexter Prize from the American Chemical Society in 1972 . He won the George Sarton Medal , the highest award given by the History of Science Society , in 1973 . He served as president of the society from 1957 - 60 . He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1978 , and in 1982 was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by France .    What entity does 'henry guerlac' has the relation 'place of birth' with?
new york