page_title: Gravity Research Foundation
hierarchical_section_title: Gravity Research Foundation
caption_attribution_description: English: monument in New Boston NH, USA, to Roger Babson and his "active research for anti-gravity and a partial gravity insulator"
context_page_description: 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 five 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.
context_section_description: The Gravity Research Foundation is an organization established in 1948 by businessman Roger Babson (founder of Babson College) 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 five 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.
caption: Monument to Babson in center of New Boston, New Hampshire
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