Gravity Research Foundation

Gravity Research Center
Formation1948; 76 years ago (1948)
FounderRoger Babson
Legal statusActive
PurposeStudy of gravitation
Websitewww.gravityresearchfoundation.org

The Gravity Research Foundation is an organization established in 1948 by businessman Roger Babson (founder of Babson College)[1] to find ways to implement gravitational shielding.[2][3] Over time, the foundation turned away from trying to block gravity and began trying to understand it. It holds an annual contest rewarding essays by scientific researchers on gravity-related topics.[4] The contest, which awards prizes of up to $4,000, has been won by at least six people who later won the Nobel Prize in physics.

The foundation held conferences and conducted operations in New Boston, New Hampshire through the late 1960s, but that aspect of its operation ended following Babson's death in 1967.

It is mentioned on stone monuments, donated by Babson, at more than a dozen American universities.[5]

  1. ^ "Sir Isaac Babson" (1948, August, 23). Newsweek, 32(8), p. 47.
  2. ^ Babson, R. W. (1950). Chapter XXXV – Playing with Gravity, Actions and Reactions [Second Revised Edition]. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers [1] Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Page over to Chapter XXXV for Roger W. Babson's description of the Gravity Research Foundation.
  3. ^ Rideout, George M (2008), "1949–2009 Sixty years Gravity Research Foundation P.O. Box 81389, Wellesley Hills, MA 02481-0004, USA", General Relativity and Gravitation, 40 (12): 2685–2686, Bibcode:2008GReGr..40.2685R, doi:10.1007/s10714-008-0680-y, S2CID 189842536
  4. ^ Witten, L. (1998). Introductory remarks on the Gravity Research Foundation on its fiftieth anniversary. In N. Dadhich & J. Marlikar (Ed.). Gravitation and Relativity: At the Turn of the Millennium [p. 375]. 15th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation. Pune, India: Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics. ISBN 81-900378-3-8
  5. ^ Chronicle of Higher Ed: "A Visionary's Dream of Antigravity"