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Revision as of 00:08, 28 June 2023
Important Known Events
1948
- Roger Babson forms the Gravity Research Foundation
1953
- Bryce Seligman DeWitt is the first well-respected physicist to win the Gravity Research Foundation essay contest
1955
- Formation of the Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS)
- September 7: Agnew Bahnson incorporates The Institute for Field Physics at UNC Chapel Hill, directed by Bryce DeWitt and Cécile DeWitt-Morette
1957
- January 18-23: Conference on the Role of Gravitation in Physics at UNC Chapel Hill
1973
- Mansfield Amendment terminates Department of Defense funding for anti-gravity research
Relevant People
- Roger Babson
- Agnew H. Bahnson
- Bryce Seligman DeWitt
- Cécile DeWitt-Morette
- Edward Witten
- Louis Witten
- Solomon Lefschetz
- Rudolf E. Kálmán
- Sheldon Glashow
- Peter Higgs
Notable winners of the Gravity Research Foundation essay contest
- Bryce Seligman DeWitt (1st place, 1953)
- Richard Arnowitt and Stanley Deser (1st place, 1954)
- John Archibald Wheeler (2nd place, 1957)
- Julian Schwinger (2nd place, 1975)
- Freeman Dyson (4th place, 1962)
- Roger Penrose (2nd place, 1966; 2nd place, 1968; 1nd place, 1975)
- Stephen Hawking (2nd place, 1965; 3rd place, 1966; 2nd place, 1968; 5th place, 1969; 1st place, 1971; 3rd place, 1974)
Relevant Institutions
- Gravity Research Foundation
- Institute for Field Physics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS)
- Glenn L. Martin Company
- Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Eric's Coverage
Tweets
Videos
The Physics of UFOs: Eric Weinstein + Hal Puthoff (February 11, 2022)
Avi Loeb + Eric Weinstein: NASA gets into UAPs, Galileo Project update, and Government Competence (June 17, 2022)
Eric Weinstein Λ Mick West: UAPs, Evidence, Skepticism (July 7, 2022)
Joe Rogan Experience #1945 (February 22, 2023)
See Also
- The Price of Gravity: Private Patronage and the Transformation of Gravitational Physics after World War II by David Kaiser & Dean Rickles
- The Role of Gravitation in Physics: Report from the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference
- Behind the scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference on the role of gravitation in physics by Dean Rickles