46:. F. Woodbridge Constant graduated in 1925 with a B.S. in physics from Princeton University and in 1928 with a Ph.D. in physics from Yale University, where he held Sloane and Loomis Fellowships. During the summer of 1926, F. Woodbridge Constant, the organist Hobart Augustus Whitman (1905–1952), and
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