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The James S. McDonnell Foundation was founded in 1950 by aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell.It was established to "improve the quality of life," and does so by contributing to the generation of new knowledge through its support of research and scholarship.
James Smith "Mac" McDonnell (April 9, 1899 – August 22, 1980) was an American aviator, engineer, and businessman. He was an aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas (which is now Boeing, after the latter's company merger in 1997), and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
James A. Schlipmann Melanoma Cancer Foundation; James S. McDonnell Foundation; Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research; Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation; John A. Hartford Foundation
The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri.The company was founded on July 6, 1939, by James Smith McDonnell, and was best known for its military fighters, including the F-4 Phantom II, and crewed spacecraft including the Mercury capsule and Gemini capsule.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1938, McDonnell is the son of McDonnell Aircraft founder James Smith McDonnell and Mary Elizabeth Finney. [citation needed] A graduate of St. Louis Country Day School (now Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School), McDonnell completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in aeronautical engineering at Princeton University in 1960 and 1962, respectively.
The Gates Foundation's headquarters in Seattle was completed in 2011, just across from the Space Needle. When the nonprofit started in 2000, staff were spread out across several buildings in South ...
In 2000, with the support of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, she founded the Perceptual Expertise Network (PEN), [3] which now comprises over ten labs based across North America. In 2006 PEN became part of the NSF-funded Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC).
Sean McDonnell was first given the name John Winters Doe. He was found abandoned outside an Arlington Heights apartment complex on a cold day in 1983. Sean was just hours old when he was left ...