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===Gravity shields=== [[File:New boston babson monument.JPG|thumb|right|A monument at [[Babson College]] dedicated to [[Roger Babson]] for research into anti-gravity and partial gravity insulators]] {{Main|Gravitational shielding}} In 1948 businessman [[Roger Babson]] (founder of [[Babson College]]) formed the [[Gravity Research Foundation]] to study ways to reduce the effects of gravity.<ref>{{cite magazine | last1 = Mooallem | first1 = J. | date = October 2007 | title = A curious attraction | magazine = Harper's Magazine | volume = 315 | issue = 1889 | pages = 84β91 }}</ref> Their efforts were initially somewhat "[[crank (person)|crank]]ish", but they held occasional conferences that drew such people as [[Clarence Birdseye]], known for his frozen-food products, and helicopter pioneer [[Igor Sikorsky]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} Over time the Foundation turned its attention away from trying to control gravity, to simply better understanding it. The Foundation nearly disappeared after Babson's death in 1967. However, it continues to run an essay award, offering prizes of up to $4,000. As of 2017, it is still administered out of [[Wellesley, Massachusetts]], by George Rideout Jr., son of the foundation's original director.<ref>[http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/winners_name.html#s List of winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228174605/http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/winners_name.html |date=28 December 2012 }}</ref> Winners include California astrophysicist [[George F. Smoot]] (1993), who later won the 2006 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]], and [[Gerard 't Hooft]] (2015) who previously won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1999/summary/|title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999}}</ref>
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