Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.
We seek and coordinate with individuals and organizations that have good ideas and the ability to execute. The success of our strategies hinges on capable grantees and we work closely with them as respected experts in their fields.
The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum and research complex, and it also manages numerous research programs and initiatives. The Center for Astrophysics – the world’s largest and most diverse center for study of the Universe – combines the resources and research facilities of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Observatory staff members led an international collaboration to obtain the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope – a global network of radio dishes that are linked together to form an Earth-sized telescope. The foundation funded the state-of-the-art data system that made it possible to construct the highest-resolution image of any astronomical object.
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