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Around the time of his first visits to India, inventor Chester Carlson began to offer financial support for his work, and when Carlson died in 1968 he left $ 1 million to endow a Chair at the University of Virginia, and a further $ 1 million for Stevenson himself to continue his research into reincarnation.
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