Physicist Fred Kavli, founder and chair of the Kavli Foundation, was a man whose lifelong love of science began when he was a boy. He was an innovative industrialist, a visionary, a philanthropic ...

Nobel prizes in science often go to researchers of an advanced age — many are retired by the time the call comes from Oslo saying they’ve won. Fred Kavli, a Norwegian immigrant who got rich from a ...

Fred Kavli, who launched a foundation to support science research and award prizes of $1 million to scientists, has died. He was 86. Kavli died Thursday at his home in Santa Barbara from complications ...

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Fred Kavli, who launched a foundation to support science research and award prizes of $1 million to scientists, has died. He was 86. Kavli died Thursday at his home in Santa ...

Fred Kavli, a Southern California philanthropist, physicist, entrepreneur, and founder and chairman of the Kavli Foundation, which promotes scientific research worldwide, died Thursday. He was 86.