Research Corporation

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The Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) is a Tucson , United States facility dedicated to advancing science. It has financed research projects in the field of physics since 1912 .

The Tucson-based organization was founded by Frederick Gardner Cottrell , an American chemist and inventor. He paid the initial foundation stock from the patent income from the electrostatic precipitator he had invented . It was the second foundation in the United States (after the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) and the first to be solely dedicated to the advancement of science.

Especially during the 1920s and 1930s, many scientists transferred their patents to the Research Corporation to ensure that all profits went to scientific advancement. The Research Corporation was a defining example of intellectual property in science.

Funded Nobel Prize Winners

• Harold C. Urey : Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934
• Ernest Lawrence : 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for the cyclotron
• Isidor Isaac Rabi : Nobel Prize in Physics 1944
• Percy W. Bridgman : 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Edward Calvin Kendall : 1950 Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of cortisone and thyroxine
• Felix Bloch : 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics for nuclear magnetic resonance
• Edward Mills Purcell : 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics
• George Wells Beadle : 1958 Nobel Medicine Prize
• Edward Lawrie Tatum : 1958 Nobel Prize for Medicine
• Severo Ochoa : Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959
• Robert Hofstadter : Nobel Prize in Physics 1961
• Feodor Lynen : Nobel Prize in Medicine 1964
• Robert B. Woodward : Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965
• Manfred Eigen : Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967
• Robert W. Holley : 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine
• Max Delbrück : Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969
• William Lipscomb : Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976
• George Wald : 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine
• Herbert Charles Brown : 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for organoboranes
• Georg Wittig : 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach : Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986
• Donald J. Cram : Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987 for molecules with structure-specific interaction of high selectivity ( supramolecular chemistry )
• Thomas R. Cech : 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for self-splicing RNA
• Elias James Corey Jr .: 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the introduction of retrosynthesis
• Rudolph Arthur Marcus : 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the theory of electron transfer in chemical systems
• Edwin Gerhard Krebs : Nobel Prize in Medicine 1992
• Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr .: 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a pulsar in a binary star system
• Frederick Reines : 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the neutrino
• Robert F. Curl : 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
• Richard E. Smalley : 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
• Robert C. Richardson : Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 for the discovery of the superfluidity of helium-3 at low temperatures
• Ahmed Zewail : 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in femtochemistry
• Alan MacDiarmid : Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 for the discovery of conductive polymers
• Carl E. Wieman : 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for Bose-Einstein condensates