Title: Carnegie Institution for Science - Wikipedia
Headings: Carnegie Institution for Science
Carnegie Institution for Science
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Name
History
Research
Department of Embryology
Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, California
Department of Plant Biology, Stanford, California
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, D.C.
The Observatories, Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile
CASE: Carnegie Academy for Science Education and First Light
Administration
Funding for eugenics
Presidents
References
External links

Content: Carnegie Academy for Science Education and First Light
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6 Funding for eugenics
7 Presidents
8 References
9 External links
Name
More than 20 independent organizations were established through the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie and now feature his surname. They perform work involving topics as diverse as art, education, international affairs, world peace, and scientific research. In 2007, the Carnegie Institution of Washington adopted the public name "Carnegie Institution for Science" to distinguish itself better from other organizations established by and named for Andrew Carnegie. The institution remains officially and legally the Carnegie Institution of Washington, but now has a public identity that describes its work. History
Andrew Carnegie
Vannevar Bush. "It is proposed to found in the city of Washington, an institution which...shall in the broadest and most liberal manner encourage investigation, research, and discovery [and] show the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind..." — Andrew Carnegie, January 28, 1902
When the United States joined World War II, Vannevar Bush was president of the Carnegie Institution. Several months before, on June 12, 1940, Bush had been instrumental in persuading President Franklin Roosevelt to create the National Defense Research Committee (later superseded by the Office of Scientific Research and Development) to mobilize and coordinate the nation's scientific war effort. Bush housed the new agency in the Carnegie Institution's administrative headquarters at 16th and P Streets, NW, in Washington, DC, converting its rotunda and auditorium into office cubicles. From this location, Bush supervised, among many other projects, the Manhattan Project. Carnegie scientists cooperated with the development of the proximity fuze and mass production of penicillin.