Roger Babson: The Man Who Tried To Fight Gravity

But not Roger Babson.

A successful American businessman and economist, Babson was not a man to be pushed around.

Roger Babson was born in 1875 in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Within a decade Babson had become a multimillionaire.

The Babson College he founded in Wellesley is one of the most prestigious entrepreneurship college in the United States.

The prophecy fulfilled within a month when the stock market came crashing down in October 1929.

Babson was one of the few people to predict the crash and the subsequent economic depression.

Babsons obsession with gravity began from early childhood.

There she smothered and died from lack of oxygen, Babson wrote.

so you can do so the Foundation organized essay competitions on the subject of gravity research.

Monetary awards were given for the best ideas submitted.

The response from the scientific community was lukewarm.

At least five participant later went on to win the Nobel Prize in physics.

Stone monument donated to University of Tampa by the Gravity Research Foundation.

Anti gravity tone monument donated to Tufts University by the Gravity Research Foundation.

So I think Mr. Babson could not have found better use for the money."