Editing The Secret History of Anti-Gravity and Quantum Gravity Research



== Important Known Events ==

===1948===

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Babson Roger Babson] forms the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Research_Foundation Gravity Research Foundation (GRF)]

===1953===

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_DeWitt Bryce Seligman DeWitt] is the first well-respected physicist to [https://web.archive.org/web/20121228174605/http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/winners_name.html win the Gravity Research Foundation essay contest]

===1955===

* George S Trimble, the vice president for aviation and advanced propulsion systems at the Glenn L. Martin Company, forms the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Institute_for_Advanced_Studies Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS)], supervised by Welcome Bender
* July 9: Initial meeting between Bryce DeWitt and Agnew Bahnson in Raleigh, N.C
* September 7: Agnew Bahnson incorporates The Institute of Field Physics (IOFP) at UNC Chapel Hill, to be directed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_DeWitt Bryce DeWitt] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cécile_DeWitt-Morette Cécile DeWitt-Morette]

===1957===
* January 18-23: [https://edition-open-sources.org/media/sources/5/Sources5.pdf Conference on the Role of Gravitation in Physics] at UNC Chapel Hill

===1973===

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mansfield#Mansfield_Amendments Mansfield Amendment] terminates Department of Defense funding for anti-gravity research

== Relevant People ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Babson Roger Babson]
* Agnew H. Bahnson
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_DeWitt Bryce Seligman DeWitt]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cécile_DeWitt-Morette Cécile DeWitt-Morette]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten Edward Witten]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Witten Louis Witten]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Lefschetz Solomon Lefschetz]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_E._Kálmán Rudolf E. Kálmán]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Glashow Sheldon Glashow]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs Peter Higgs]

=== [https://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/year#1949 Notable winners of the Gravity Research Foundation essay contest] ===

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_DeWitt Bryce Seligman DeWitt] (1st place, 1953)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arnowitt Richard Arnowitt] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Deser Stanley Deser] (1st place, 1954)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler] (2nd place, 1957)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schwinger Julian Schwinger] (2nd place, 1975)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson Freeman Dyson] (4th place, 1962)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose Roger Penrose] (2nd place, 1966; 2nd place, 1968; 1nd place, 1975)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking Stephen Hawking] (2nd place, 1965; 3rd place, 1966; 2nd place, 1968; 5th place, 1969; 1st place, 1971; 3rd place, 1974)


== Relevant Institutions ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Research_Foundation Gravity Research Foundation (GRF)]
* Institute for Field Physics (IOFP) at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Institute_for_Advanced_Studies Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS)]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_L._Martin_Company Glenn L. Martin Company]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright Curtiss-Wright Corporation]

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== References ==

* [https://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/HSNS4803_03_Kaiser.pdf The Price of Gravity: Private Patronage and the Transformation of Gravitational Physics after World War II] by [https://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/ David Kaiser] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rickles Dean Rickles]
* [https://edition-open-sources.org/media/sources/5/Sources5.pdf The Role of Gravitation in Physics: Report from the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference]
* [https://royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/journal/154-2-Rickles.pdf Behind the scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference on the role of gravitation in physics] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rickles Dean Rickles]