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> This work was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany. What an odd area of research for Volkswagen to fund.
by Donald 7y ago
> This work was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany.
What an odd area of research for Volkswagen to fund.
- whereareyo 7y agoIt's not a commercial story.
- germanier 7y agoThe Volkswagen Foundation is completely independent of the company named Volkswagen. It was found with the proceeds from the sale of the company to private investors by the state of Lower Saxony and the Federal Republic in the 60s and receives the dividends of the still publicly held shares. It's not a company foundation and Volkswagen has no say in any form. It's just a large public science foundation.
- dredmorbius 7y agoCompare the Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Pew, and MacArthur foundations, for the US. These don't represent the interests of Standard Oil, US Steel, Ford Motor, Sun Oil, or Bankers Life & Casualty.