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Stanford Linear Collider
The Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) was an electron-positron linear collider at SLAC in California, the only high-energy linear collider ever operated, which ran from 1989 to 1998 producing Z bosons.
Stanford marshmallow experiment
Stanford marshmallow experiment: Walter Mischel's 1968-1974 Bing Nursery School delay-of-gratification task, offering one treat now or two after 15 minutes; famous longitudinal claims about later success have not held up in controlled replications.
Stanford Medicine
Stanford Medicine is Stanford University's integrated academic health system: the School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Children's Health. Founded from Cooper Medical College (1858), it moved to Palo Alto in 1959 and pioneered US heart transplantation.
Stanford Moore
Stanford Moore (1913–1982) was an American biochemist at The Rockefeller University who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the enzyme ribonuclease.
Stanford prison experiment
The Stanford prison experiment, also known as the Zimbardo experiment, was a 1971 Stanford psychology study in which students playing guards abused student prisoners, ending after six days.
Stanford Pupper
Stanford Pupper is a small open-source quadruped robot developed at Stanford University that can hop, trot, and run, built for about $600 to $1000 for research and education.
Stanford Solomon Penner
Stanford Solomon Penner, known as Sol Penner, was a German-born American combustion physicist who worked on propulsion and spectroscopy and founded UC San Diego's engineering program.
Stanford Stadium
Stanford Stadium: Stanford Cardinal football venue in Stanford, California, opened 1921 with the Big Game, rebuilt 2006 at 50,424 seats; hosted Super Bowl XIX and 1994 World Cup matches.
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) is a synchrotron X-ray user facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, operated by Stanford University for the Department of Energy.
Stanford torus
The Stanford torus is a wheel-shaped space habitat design from a 1975 NASA study: a rotating ring about 1.8 km across providing Earth-normal gravity for 10,000 residents.
Stanford Tree
Stanford Tree: costumed mascot of the LSJUMB marching band, unofficial mascot of Stanford University since its 1975 Big Game debut; each Tree builds a new costume after Tree Week stunts.
Stanford University
Stanford University (Leland Stanford Junior University): private research university in Stanford, California, founded 1885, opened 1891; seven schools, 8,353-acre campus, $40.8 billion endowment, Jonathan Levin president.
Stanford Watershed Model
The Stanford Watershed Model is a pioneering computer program developed at Stanford University by Norman Crawford and Ray Linsley that simulates streamflow from precipitation, becoming the ancestor of the EPA's HSPF model.
Stanford Wessler
Stanford Wessler was an American physician-scientist in internal medicine who researched thrombosis at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital, later led Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, and challenged Buerger's disease in 1960.
Stanford White
Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the New York firm McKim, Mead & White, known for Madison Square Garden, the Washington Square Arch, and Rosecliff.
Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales
The Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales, also called the Stanford-Binet, are individually administered intelligence tests dating to 1905 and revised by Lewis Terman at Stanford in 1916.
Stanford, California
Stanford, California is a census-designated place (CDP) in unincorporated Santa Clara County covering Stanford University's campus; 21,150 residents at the 2020 census, median age 22, governed under the county's 1985 Land Use Policy.
Stanford/JPL Hand
The Stanford/JPL Hand, later the Salisbury Hand, is a three-fingered, tendon-actuated robot hand developed from 1982 under a NASA program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Stanford.
Stanhopea
Stanhopea (J.Frost ex Hook.) is a Neotropical epiphytic orchid genus in subtribe Stanhopeinae, native from Mexico to southern tropical America and Trinidad, with roughly 55–78 accepted species, pendent few-flowered inflorescences, and euglossine bee pollination via fragrant osmophores.
Staniel Cay
Staniel Cay is a small Exuma Cays island in the Bahamas, about 75 miles south of Nassau, home to Staniel Cay Yacht Club (founded 1956), Thunderball Grotto, and the nearby Big Major Cay swimming pigs.
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910) was an Italian chemist whose 1858 Sunto clarified atomic and molecular weights via Avogadro's hypothesis, who discovered the Cannizzaro reaction, and who built Italian chemistry institutions at Palermo and Rome.
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene, born 1965, is a French cognitive neuroscientist, chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France and director of NeuroSpin, known for the number-sense hypothesis and neuronal recycling theory.
Stanislas du Lac
Stanislas du Lac (1835–1909) was a French Jesuit priest and educationist, rector of the École Sainte-Geneviève in Paris and a figure in the Dreyfus Affair.
Stanislas Kostka
Stanislas Kostka (Stanisław Kostka, 1550–1568) was a Polish Jesuit novice who died in Rome at seventeen, the first Jesuit beatified, in 1605, and canonized in 1726.
Stanislas Leibler
Stanislas Leibler is a Polish-born, French-trained physicist turned systems biologist, head of the Laboratory of Living Matter at Rockefeller University since 2001, known for the repressilator.
Stanislas Pol
Stanislas Pol is a French hepatologist, professor at Université Paris Descartes and head of the hepatology department at Hôpital Cochin in Paris, known for coordinating the ANRS HEPATHER cohort study of hepatitis C treatment.
Stanislaus County
Stanislaus County is a California county in the San Joaquin Valley with county seat Modesto. Population 557,719 (2025 estimate), FIPS 06099; a top-ten agricultural county with $3.33 billion gross farm value in 2025.
Stanislaus Hosius
Stanislaus Hosius (Polish: Stanisław Hozjusz, 1504–1579) was a Polish cardinal, Bishop of Warmia, and papal legate to the Council of Trent whose Confessio fidei defended Catholicism during the Reformation.
Stanislaus Mugwanya
Stanislaus Mugwanya, also known as Stanislas Mugwanya, was a Catholic chief and regent of Buganda who signed the 1900 Buganda Agreement for Kabaka Daudi Chwa.
Stanislaus S. Wong
Stanislaus S. Wong is a materials chemist, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, known for carbon nanotube chemistry and nanostructure synthesis.