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Thomas Baker "Tom" Slick, Jr. (May 6, 1916 – October 6, 1962) was a San Antonio, Texas based inventor, businessman, adventurer, and heir to an oil business. Slick's father, Thomas Baker Slick, Sr., a.k.a. "The King of the Wildcatters", had made a fortune during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s. ==Career== During the 1950s, Slick was an adventurer. He turned his attention to expeditions to investigate the Loch Ness Monster, the Yeti, Bigfoot and the Trinity Alps giant salamander. Slick's interest in cryptozoology was little known until the 1989 publication of the biography ''Tom Slick and the Search for Yeti'', by Loren Coleman. Coleman continued his study of Tom Slick in 2002 with ''Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology''. That book mentions many of Tom Slick's adventures, in politics, art, science, and cryptozoology, including his involvement with the CIA and Howard Hughes. Tom Slick was a friend of many celebrities, including Hughes and fellow flier Jimmy Stewart. Stewart, for example, assisted a Slick-backed expedition in smuggling a piece of the Pangboche Yeti hand back to England for scientific analysis, Loren Coleman was to discover from Slick's files and confirmation from Stewart before his death. Slick founded several research organizations, beginning with the forerunner of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in 1941. His most well-known legacy is the non-profit Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), which he founded in 1947 to seek revolutionary advancements in technology. SwRI continues to advance pure and applied science in a variety of fields from lubricant and motor fuel formulation to solar physics and planetary science. He also founded the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio in 1958 to do consciousness research. In 1955 he was awarded a patent for the lift slab method of constructing concrete buildings. He was an advocate of world peace. In 1958 he published the book, ''Permanent Peace: A Check and Balance Plan''. He funded the Tom Slick World Peace lectures at the LBJ Library, and the Tom Slick Professorship of World Peace at the University of Texas. Nicolas Cage was to have portrayed Slick in a movie, ''Tom Slick: Monster Hunter'', but the project stalled.〔(Tom Slick: Monster Hunter movie trailer review pics pictures poster news DVD at The Z Review )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Slick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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