Proper noun
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A habitational surname from Old English.
A private university in Santa Clara County, California.
A place name, including:
A hamlet in Bedfordshire, England.
A village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1238).
A deserted village and civil parish (without a council) in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (now in a military area) (OS grid ref TL8594).
A home rule city, the county seat of Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States.
A town, the county seat of Judith Basin County, Montana, United States.
A census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, United States, the location of the eponymous university.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgHere I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology [at Stanford and Harvard], and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled. Ram Dass
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing. Jesmyn Ward
I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977. Philip Zimbardo
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. Philip Zimbardo
When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery. Robert B. Laughlin
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work. Robert B. Laughlin