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Engineering a Foundation's Demise
A philanthropy that jump-started biomedical research shuts down
By Michael Anft
As a teenager in the 1960s, Ruth Whitaker Holmes remembers her father enthusiastically foretelling a time when engineers would play a vital role in devising medical cures and technologies.
An engineer trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Uncas Whitaker built an electrical...