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SRI logo circa 1952
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1953: SRI's Poulter Laboratory is founded in 1953; the beginning of more than 50 years of research in the response of materials and structures to impacts, fatigue, explosions, and fractures. |
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1950: SRI emphasizes international work and opens an office in Washington, D.C.
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SRI logo circa 1955 |
1955: E. Finley Carter becomes SRI's executive director, a title to be changed to president in 1958. |
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1955: SRI begins a 13-year series of transactions to purchase from Stanford University all the land it presently occupies. |
1956: In partnership with the University of Arizona, SRI holds the first worldwide conference on the capture and use of solar energy (500 engineers and scientists and 29,000 people over five days come to watch). |
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1956: SRI develops the Hydracushion, a shock-absorbing mechanism for railcars, and begins a still-continuing series of research projects in synthesis of possible anticancer agents for the National Institutes of Health. The institute has 742 research projects and a staff of 1408. |
1956: SRI's Molecular Physics Laboratory is founded. The lab performs fundamental and applied research in lasor sensors, mass spectroscopy, and atmospheric processes. |
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1957: SRI and The Conference Board sponsor the first International Industrial Conference, which convenes in San Francisco every four years until 1997 as a summit of global leaders concerned with global political, social, and economic change. |
1958: SRI inaugurates the Long-Range Planning Services, later known as the Scan program.
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1959: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors SRI with an Academy Award for development of a Technicolor electronic printing timer.
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