The Leland Stanford Junior University, often referred to as Stanford University or just Stanford for short, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California, near Palo Alto. It was founded in 1891 by Leland Stanford, a California Governor and Senator and railroad tycoon, and his wife Jane in honor of their son, who died of typhoid just before his sixteenth birthday. Notably, since 1952, more than fifty Stanford alumni have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. The university was eventually organized into seven schools covering different fields: Humanities and Sciences, Earth Science, Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine.
George Baselton and Doc Thorne were both professors at Stanford.
