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Stanford University

university, Stanford, California, United States
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Also known as: Leland Stanford Junior University
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Official name:
Leland Stanford Junior University
Date:
1885 - present
Notable Alumni:
Karl Deisseroth
Paul Milgrom
Owen Garriott
Alvin E. Roth
Ernest J. Gaines
Related People:
Frederick Law Olmsted
Ellwood Cubberley
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford
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Stanford University, private coeducational institution of higher learning at Stanford, California, U.S. (adjacent to Palo Alto), one of the most prestigious in the country. The university was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane (née Lathrop), and was dedicated to their deceased only child, Leland, Jr.; it opened in 1891. The university campus largely occupies Stanford’s former Palo Alto farm. The buildings, conceived by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and designed by architect Charles Allerton Coolidge, are of soft buff sandstone in a style similar to the old California mission architecture, being long and low ...(100 of 490 words)

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