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Simons Foundation

1994-01-01year known, day not recorded

Private science-funding foundation founded by mathematician-financier Jim Simons (1994); a major backer of mathematics, physics and astrophysics. Named NASA UAP-study chair David Spergel its president in 2021 - the bridge in the podcast panel's physics-philanthropy thread.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "uap". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I

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…independent study team was chaired by the President of the Simons Foundation and included members from the USG, academia, and the privat…

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named him its president (2021)

Simons Foundation; Princeton Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences
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co-founded the foundation (1994)

Simons Foundation corporate history