Home›Institutions›Founded Era›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryThis dimension groups scientific institutions by the era in which they were founded. Wikipedia notes that a research institute is "an establishment founded for doing research," founded at one specific point in the history of the field. Browsing by founded era lets a visitor compare institutions established in the same period.Facts20th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonConcept Term OriginWell-attested1707 120th centuryFilter Results59 entriesInstitution FunctionAllAsian Research Institutes (2)British Universities (3)Disciplinary and Professional Societies (10)European Physical Science Laboratories (3)Federally Funded and University-Affiliated Research Centers (7)Independent Research Institutes (5)Major International Science Prizes (7)National Academies of Sciences (1)National Science and Survey Agencies (2)Observatories (1)Russian and Southern European Universities (1)South and East Asian Universities (5)Space Agencies (4)Swiss Universities and Institutes of Technology (1)United States Universities (3)FounderAllAlfred Nobel (1)Cyril Stanley Smith (1)George Ellery Hale (1)J. Robert Oppenheimer (1)John Kendrew (1)Jokichi Takamine (1)Leonard Bloomfield (1)Marie Curie (1)Vilhelm Bjerknes (1)LocationAllBelgium (1)Bengaluru (1)Bristol (1)China (1)Cleveland (1)Daejeon (1)Dhaka (1)England (1)France (2)Germany (1)India (2)Israel (2)Japan (2)Jerusalem (1)Kolkata (1)Lausanne (1)London (1)Moscow (1)Nagoya (1)New Jersey (1)New York City (1)Norway (2)Paris (1)San Diego (1)Sapporo (1)Switzerland (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (19)Washington, D.C. (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 59American Anthropological Association20th centuryAmerican Society for Virology20th centuryAssociation for Computing Machinery20th centuryBCS, The Chartered Institute for IT20th centuryBell Labs20th centuryBiochemical Society20th centuryBose Institute20th centuryBrookhaven National Laboratory20th centuryCase Western Reserve University20th centuryCERN20th centuryChinese Academy of Sciences20th centuryCognitive Science Society20th centuryCurie Institute20th centuryÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne20th centuryEcological Society of America20th centuryEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory20th centuryEuropean Space Agency20th centuryFermilab20th centuryFields Medal20th centuryFrench National Centre for Scientific Research20th centuryGeophysical Institute, Bergen20th centuryHebrew University of Jerusalem20th centuryHokkaido University20th centuryIEEE Medal of Honor20th centuryImperial College London20th centuryIndian Institute of Science20th centuryIndian Space Research Organisation20th centuryInstitute for Advanced Study20th centuryInstitute for the Study of Metals20th centuryInternational Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry20th centuryJadavpur University20th centuryJet Propulsion Laboratory20th centuryJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory20th centuryKorea Aerospace Research Institute20th centuryKyoto Prize20th centuryLasker Award20th centuryLebedev Physical Institute20th centuryLinguistic Society of America20th centuryLos Alamos National Laboratory20th centuryMax Planck Society20th centuryMount Wilson Observatory20th centuryNagoya University20th centuryNASA20th centuryNational Science Foundation20th centuryNaval Research Laboratory20th centuryNobel Prize20th centuryPhilosophy of Science Association20th centuryRIKEN20th centuryRockefeller University20th centurySLAC National Accelerator Laboratory20th centurySociety for Integrative and Comparative Biology20th centuryTuring Award20th centuryUniversity of Bristol20th centuryUniversity of California, San Diego20th centuryUniversity of Dhaka20th centuryUniversity of Sussex20th centuryWeizmann Institute of Science20th centuryWolf Prize20th centuryWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution20th centurySources1. Online Etymology Dictionary: institutiontier 2Online Etymology DictionaryOnline Etymology Dictionary, institution entry, organization senseQuote, Online Etymology Dictionary, institution entry, organization senseMeaning "establishment or organization for the promotion of some charity" is from 1707.View the SourceWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaContains: Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionView the SourceMount Wilson Observatory (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaContains: Mount Wilson ObservatoryView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.