The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as
Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private
research university located in Stanford, California on an 8,180-acre
(3,310 ha) campus near Palo Alto, California, United States. It is
situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco
Peninsula, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose and 37
miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco.
Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, founded
the university in 1891 in honor of his son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who
died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday. The university was
established as a coeducational and nondenominational institution, but
struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and after
much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and
graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in
what would become known as Silicon Valley. (form Wikipedia). |
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