Carnegie Institute of Washington foundedIn 1902, the Carnegie Institute of Washington, was founded,incorporated at a meeting at the State Department. Andrew Carnegie pledged $10,000,000 to establish it as a centre for cutting-edge scientific research. On 8 Jun 1902, the New York Times reported Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, lately president of Johns Hopkins University, was to head it, and he planned to go to Europe for advice on its organization from the best French, German and British educators. It was envisaged that the institute would provide scholarships and professorates enabling talented individuals to conduct research fulltime. It is now an endowed, independent, nonprofit institution, with additional support from federal grants and private donations. In his lifetime, Carnegie established otherunaffiliated organizations which bear his name, for example, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (1895), unrelated except for sharing their benefactor's name.« |
