Anne Sullivan Anne Sullivan Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy (April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936), better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind where upon graduation she became a teacher to Keller when she was 20. Sullivan was born on April 14, 1866, in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Massachusetts. According to her baptismal certificate, her
Neil S. Sullivan Neil S. Sullivan Neil S. Sullivan (born January 18, 1942) is a professor of physics at the University of Florida. He attended Otago University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1964 followed by a Master of Science in 1965. In 1972, he obtained his PhD from Harvard University with the thesis "Nuclear Magnetism of Solid Hydrogen at Low Temperatures". Born in New Zealand, Sullivan became a naturalized United States citizen in 2004. Sullivan became a professor of physics at the University of Florida in 1983. He became chair of the Physics Department in 1989, a