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The Leland Stanford Junior University, more known under the name of Stanford uneversity , is a University American private, located in the heart of Silicon Valley Southof San Francisco, separated from Palo Alto El Camino Real Avenue. She has participated in the development of the Internet. It takes its name from the son of its founders, Leland and Jane Stanford: Leland Stanford Junior. Leland Stanford was a businessman and American politician of the 19th century.

Among its professors and researchers, there are currently 21 Nobel Prize. In the sporting field, the Stanford Cardinal club defends the colours of Stanford University. Following the death of René Girard (Professor Emeritus), only one member of the French Academy is currently a professor at Stanford: Michel Serres.
The University was founded at the end of the xix century by the railway magnate, Governor and Senator from California Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Stanford. It owes its name to their only child, Leland Stanford Junior, died of typhoid fever in 1884 just before his sixteenth birthday. The day of the death of his son, Leland Stanfordtold his wife "children of California shall be our children" (The children of Californiashall be our children), phrase that is generally regarded as the symbolic of the University founding act.

The campus is nicknamed The Farm by students in reference to the fact that it was founded on the former site of the farm of Stanford, the Palo Alto Stock Farm, whichhoused horses. The Act of Foundation is dated November 11, 1885 and the University officially opens its doors on October 1, 1891 to 559 students as a joint institution.
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed parts of the Main Quad, the library and the Stanford Memorial Church, and the portal which marked the entrance of the University. The buildings are quickly renovated but some do not find their original appearance, such as the Church, whose Bell Tower was not rebuilt. The Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 inflicts further damage to the campus.
Stanford University extends over 32 km2. Its main campus is bounded by El Camino real, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard and Sand Hill Road, in the Northwest region of the Santa Clara Valley, in the San Francisco peninsula.

It was during the was 1886 Stanford consult the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker, and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in Boston to decide plans for the campus. Olmsted is originally from the general idea of campus, its buildings and the place suitable for construction. Charles Allerton Coolidge chooses Romanesque richardsonian and combines it with the Mission Revival style (inspired by the colonial style of the Spanish missions of California) for buildings. However this original campus is greatly struck by the earthquake of 1906, which saves only the Quad, the old Chemistry Building and Encina Hall.
The University also includes a second campus, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, a field of 5 km² located in Portola Valley, and the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove.

The main buildings of the main campus are the Main Quad and Memorial Church, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts and art gallery, the Stanford Mausoleum and the Angel of Grief, Hoover Tower, the Rodin sculpture garden4, the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, the Arizona Cactus Garden, the Stanford University Arboretum, Green Library and the Dish. The Hanna - Honeycomb House of Frank Lloyd Wright (1937) and the Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House (1919) are both National Historic Landmarks.

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