Gravity Research Foundation
The Gravity Research Foundation is an organization established in 1948 by businessman Roger Babson to find ways to implement gravitational shielding. 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. 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.
Monument to Babson in center of New Boston, New Hampshire
A pamphlet issued by the foundation, date uncertain.
The Gravity Research Foundation monument at Gordon College
The Gravity Research Foundation monument at Tufts University
Roger Ward Babson was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
Babson in 1918
Newton apple tree at Babson College
An example of a "Babson Boulder" at Dogtown