It's lost in the mists of time but Southern California Edison gave unGodly amounts of money during the Depression in the 1930s to Cal-Berkeley Physics so guys like Lawrence and Oppenheimer could waste it on high-energy physics experiments.
The electric company was looking for breakthroughs in the costs/efficiency of long distance power transmission. Poor stockholders never got a thing for their money.
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