the Bennett Dam flooding vast valleys, gas pipelines and plants at Taylor, coal mines and pulp mills. Personal life In late 1909, while returning from a trip to America on board a trans-Atlantic liner, he met Marguerite Gauntier Liggett who had been born on 15 October 1891 in Kansas City, Missouri. She was traveling with her sister, actress Gene Gauntier, to Europe to complete her musical training as an opera singer. After a brief romance at sea, they traveled to London, where they married on 14 December 1909 before traveling on to Berlin where she would complete her studies. The Viking Fund Wenner-Gren also founded and endowed The Viking Fund in 1941, an organization supporting anthropological research. In 1941, the endowment funded the Wenner-Gren Aeronautical Research Laboratory, now called the Wenner-Gren Laboratory at the University of Kentucky. The lab has since changed its focus to Biomedical Engineering. The Viking fund was later renamed the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. See also Wenner-Gren Center References Literature This is the most important detailed study of Wenner-Gren, refuting the allegations regarding his peacemaking efforts during WWII. The author, , was deputy foreign minister, and Sweden's ambassador to London. Luciak, Ilja. "The Life of Axel Wenner-Gren–An Introduction." In , pp. 12–30. (On pp. 21–22, points to Leifland 1989 as conclusive evidence that Wenner-Gren's blacklisting was a miscarriage of justice). Bolaños Guerra, Santiago & Jorge Ruiz Esparza, Axel Wenner-Gren. El vikingo que llegó del frío (The Viking Who Went South From the Cold), Mexico, 2008, 407 pages. Santiago Bolaños Guerra en colaboración con Jorge Ruiz Esparza "La Cruz del Sur" Axel Wenner-Gren el espía que México protegió. Ediciones B 322 Páginas. 2009 México. External links 1881 births Science and technology in Sweden 1961 deaths 20th-century Swedish businesspeople People from Uddevalla Municipality