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Ellery Schempp (born Ellory Schempp, August 5, 1940) is a physicist and is known for being the primary student involved in the landmark 1963 United States Supreme Court decision of ''Abington School District v. Schempp''〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT v. SCHEMPP )〕 which declared that required public school sanctioned Bible readings were unconstitutional. ==Biography== Schempp was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the Roslyn community of Abington Township. He graduated from Abington High School in 1958, and attended Tufts University where he earned bachelor degrees in physics and geology.〔 In 1967, Schempp received his Ph.D. in physics from Brown University. In 1977, Schempp was part of the Pittsburgh Explorer’s Group Nanga Parbat Expedition which was to be the first American group to reach the peak of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. Schempp, who is retired, currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. Stephen D. Solomon, a professor at New York University, has written a book about Schempp and the Supreme Court case entitled ''Ellery’s Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ellery Schempp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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