Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President, records of Karl Taylor Compton and James Rhyne Killian

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory

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Carpenter, Donald F. (Donald Fell), 1899-1985

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Donald F. Carpenter was born on September 24, 1899. He received his B.S. in Engineering from M.I.T. in 1922. Carpenter was a member of the advisory group for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1947, and was chairman of the Munitions Board from 1848 to 1949. From the description of Carpenter, Donald F. (Donald Fell), 1899- (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10625100 Donald Fell Carpenter was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. on September 24, 1899. He was a f...

Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954

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Physicist. From the description of K.T. Compton speeches, 1939-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83457426 Karl Taylor Compton (b. Sept. 14, 1887, Wooster, Ohio-d. June 22, 1954, New York City), prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1930 to 1948. From the description of Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10570905 ...

Sage, Nathaniel McLean, 1918-2005

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Nathaniel McLean Sage, Jr., was born in 1918 to Nathaniel McLean Sage and Charlotte (Simonds) Sage. He worked as a geologist and research administrator. Sage was a graduate of the Pomfret School, and completed his higher education at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT), where he would receive a bachelor’s degree (1941), masters degree (1951), and PhD (1953) in geology. He worked as a professor of geology at Amherst College and the University of New Hampshire. From 1960 to 1968 he was ...

Compton, Elias, 1856-1938

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Elias Compton, 1856-1938, was a professor at the College of Wooster. He married Otelia C. Augspurger on August 1, 1886. Together they had four children: Karl Taylor, Mary Elesa (later known as Mary Compton Rice), Wilson Martindale, and Arthur Holly Compton....

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

American Institute of Physics

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Physicist. High Energy Radiation Section, National Bureau of Standards, 1949-1962; Chief, Radiation Physics Division, 1962-1966; Director, American Institute of Physics, 1966-1986. From the description of The story of the American Institute of Physics, 1967-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305950 The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffus...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965

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Baruch, a financier and public adviser, was a millionaire by the age of thirty thanks to his investments in the stock market. He put his wealth to use in politics and public affairs and became an adviser to Woodrow Wilson, who appointed him chairman of the War Industries Board and a member of the president's war council. After World War I, he took part in the postwar peace conference and later became an adviser to President Roosevelt on defense matters and industrial preparedness for war. After ...

United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

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Dewey, Bradley, 1887-1974

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Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994

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Trump, John G.

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MacKinnon, Joseph C., 1891-1970

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Joseph Chrisman MacKinnon, 1891-1970, was registrar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned an SB in electrical engineering at MIT in 1913. He returned to MIT in 1915 as an assistant and instructor in the Department of Physics, a role he held until 1924. In 1923, MacKinnon was appointed registrar, a position he held until his retirement in 1956. While registrar he also served as a lecturer in statistics (1932 to 1935) and assistant secretary of the faculty (1934 to 1951)....

Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation

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Albert Farwell Bemis (1870-1936) studied civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received his SB degree in 1893. He spent most of his business career in Boston with the Bemis Brothers Bag Company, serving as president (1909-1925) and then chairman (1925-1934). He founded the Angus Company, Ltd., a jute mill and jute machinery works, in India in 1912. For many years he served as a director of various Massachusetts mills and two Boston banks. Bemis was...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

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The family firm of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was established in 1802 and during the 19th century it became one of the United States' most important manufacturers of black powder. In 1902 three younger du Pont cousins: T. Coleman, Alfred I., and Pierre S. took over the company and within three years succeeded in bringing 75% of the American explosives industry (which at that time included black powder, dynamite, and smokeless powder) under their control. During the first decade of the...

Hauser, Ernst A. (Ernst Alfred), 1896-

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Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982

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Physicist. From the description of Merle Antony Tuve papers, 1901-1982 (bulk 1941-1966). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979847 Biographical Note 1901, June 27 Born, Canton, South Dakota 1922 B.S., University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, Minn. ...

Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908

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Redfield Proctor was Secretary of War, 1888-1891. He also served as Governor and Senator from Vermont. George Crook was a Major-general in the army. From the description of TLS, 1889 September 21 : Washington, D.C. to George Crook. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 18501204 Redfield Proctor (1831-1908) was commissioned quartermaster of the 3rd Vermont Regiment June 19, 1861, was promoted to major of the 5th Vermont Regiment September 25, 1861, resigned July 11...

Eastman, George, 1854-1932

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Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985

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Morse died in 1985. From the description of Autobiographical data, ca. 1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81716656 Philip McCord Morse was born August 6, 1903, in Shreveport, Louisiana. His parents, Allen Crafts Morse, a telephone engineer, and Edith McCord Morse, soon moved to Cleveland where he grew up. In 1921 Philip Morse started attending Case Institute, but he took the following year off to work in the Radiolectric Shop that he owned with friends. Upon h...

Tate, Vernon D.

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Den Hartog, J. P. (Jacob Pieter), 1901-1989

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General Electric Company

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Founded 1892. Corporate interests include: Broadcasting; Electric Components; Household Appliances; Lighting Equipment; Motors; Telecommunications; Electromedical Industry. From the description of Technical records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84865339 Founded 1892. From the description of General Electric Company in Camden, N.J., collection, 1878-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979711 Schenectady, NY. From the description of Electr...

Williams, Robert S. (Robert Seaton), 1880-

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Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967

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Haslam, Robert T. (Robert Thomas), 1888-

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Land Grant College Engineering Association

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Cochrane, E. L. (Edward Lull), 1892-

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Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy. From the description of Papers, 1914-1960. (Navy Department Library, Naval History & Heritage Command). WorldCat record id: 50233202 ...

Whitman, Walter G. (Walter George), 1874-

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Gaudin, A. M. (Antoine Marc), 1900-1974

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Kresge Auditorium (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Kispert, Malcolm G.

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Alvar Aalto, 1898-1976

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Bowles, Edward Lindley, 1897-1990

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Inventor, engineer, and educator. From the description of Edward Lindley Bowles papers, 1869-1990 (bulk 1920-1982). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456446 Engineer. From the description of Reminiscences of Edward Lindley Bowles : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309722261 Edward L. Bowles born December 9, 1897 in Westphalia, Missouri. He was a Consultant to the Secretary of War and Special Consultant...

Association of American Universities

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The Association of American Universities was founded in 1900 by the fourteen American universities that then offered the Ph. D. degree. The purpose of the association was to attempt to standardize higher education. At various stages in its history the AAU has concentrated on accrediting universities, sponsoring research, and representing the interests of research universities to the federal government. From the description of Association of American Universities records, 1900-1982. (...

Hunsaker, Jerome Clarke, 1886-1984

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Jerome Clarke Hunsaker was an aeronautical engineer and designer. Born in Creston, Iowa in 1886, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy and later received a Doctorate of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hunsaker was posted as Chief, Aircraft Division, Bureau of Construction and Repair, Navy Department from 1916–1921. He became Chief of the Design Division in 1921, where he designed the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first rigid airship constructed in the...

Sherwood, Thomas K. (Thomas Kilgore), 1903-1976

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Moreland, Edward Leyburn

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Office of the President

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In November 1957 Julius Adams Stratton, then chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was appointed as MIT's acting president, retaining at the same time his title of chancellor. In December 1958 he was elected president of the Institute, effective January 1, 1959. His inauguration was held on June 15, 1959. Dr. Stratton served as president until June 30, 1966, when he retired at the age of 65 (at the time, a mandatory retirement age). Further infor...

Rushton, A.

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DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994

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Lee DuBridge was President of the California Institute of Technology from 1946-1969. From the description of Space Research, 1958. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733095203 DuBridge was President of Caltech. From the description of No Shakeup in JPL Management Due, 1964 Feb. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733096493 From the description of Confirmation of Conditions for Relations...

United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps

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The Department of Military Science was established at the University of Oregon in 1919. The school had sponsored military training through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program before the creation of a Military Science department. In January 1916, then University of Oregon, (UO) president Prince Lucien Cambell, established a ROTC curriculum led by LTC John Leader, a retired British officer. Over 100 students participated in the first drill in March 1916, le...

Maclaurin, R. Colin, 1914-1959

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Richard Colin Maclaurin, 1914-1959, was an administrative officer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was the son of MIT President Richard Cockburn Maclaurin. He received a bachelor of science from Harvard University in 1938. At MIT, he served as personnel officer from 1946 to 1954, director of general services from 1954 to 1958, and assistant to the chancellor from 1958 to 1959....

Doriot, Georges F. (Georges Frederic), 1899-1987

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U.S. Army officer, artist, financier, and professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration (1926-1941, 1946-1966). From the description of Papers, 1917-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605100 Georges F. Doriot was a professor of Manufacturing at Harvard Business School from 1926-1966 (with a break during World War II). He served as Brigadier General from 1941-1947 and was assigned to the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff in 1946, a positi...

Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962

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Physicist Arthur Holly Compton worked as a research engineer at Westinghouse Lamp Co. (1917-1919) and studied with Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England (1919). He taught physics at Washington University (1920-1923) and at University of Chicago (1923-1945) and served as Chancellor of Washington University from 1945-1953. From the guide to the Arthur Holly Compton notebooks, 1919-1941, 1919-1941, (American Philosophical Society) In 1920, Arthur Holly Co...

General motors corporation

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Hottel, Hoyt C. (Hoyt Clarke), 1903-1998

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Born in Salem, Indiana on 15 January 1903. Died on 5 January 2000. Education: A.B., Chemistry, Indiana University (1922), S.M., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1924). Employment: 1942-1945 National Defense Research Committee ; 1942-1946 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ; 1946-1956 Armed Forces Special Weapons Project ; 1952-1973 American Flame Research Committee of the International Flame Foundation ; 1954-1964 Combustion Institute ; 1924- Massachusetts In...

Snyder, Joseph J.

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Gilliland, Edwin Richard, 1909-1973

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Fassett, Frederick G. (Frederick Gardiner), 1901-

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Committee on Educational Survey

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Ford Foundation. Research grants

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Wilson, Carroll L.

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Atoms for Peace Awards, inc.

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Kimball, Robert M.

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Swope, Gerard, 1872-1957

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Electrical engineer. From the description of Reminiscences of Gerard Swope : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735130 ...

Lobdell, H. E. (Harold Edward), b. 1896

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Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937

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Electrician, inventor with 700 patents under his name; winner of many honors, prizes, and medals. From the description of Letter to S[amuel] S[ydney] McClure, 1894 February 3. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55132441 Thomson joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1894, served as Acting President of the Institute, 1920-1922, and was a member of the MIT Corporation for many years....

Stever, H. Guyford

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Compton, Wilson Martindale, 1890-1967

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Wilson Martindale Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio, on October 15, 1890. He attended Wooster College, receiving the degrees of Ph.B. in 1911, M.A. in 1912, and LL.D. in 1935. He also received a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1915. Compton was a fellow at Princeton between 1913 and 1915. He was appointed assistant professor at Dartmouth between 1915 and 1916. Between 1916 and 1918, he was an economist with the Federal Trade Commission. The majority of his working career, however, was spent as secretary...

Loomis, Alfred L. (Alfred Lee), 1887-1975

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Alfred Lee Loomis, 1887-1975, A.B. in physics, 1909, Yale University; LL.B. 1912, Harvard Law School, was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation from 1931 until his death in 1975. He established Loomis Laboratories in 1926 in Tuxedo Park, New York, to conduct independently financed research on a wide range of scientific topics. As chairman of the Microwave Committee of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), he was influential in establishing the governme...

Killian, James Rhyne, 1904-

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Scientist, college administrator. From the description of Reminiscences of James Rhyne Killian, Jr. : oral history, 1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565732 October 24, 1957 First Award: Niels Henrik David Bohr January 29, 1959 Second Award: George Charles de Hevesy ...

Emerson, William Henry, 1860-1924

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Maclaurin, W. Rupert (William Rupert), 1907-1959

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Stone & Webster, inc.

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Engineering and construction business; formed 1889. From the description of Stone & Webster records, [19--]-[19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70977194 Engineering contractors Stone & Webster, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts, working in conjunction with the El Paso Electric Railway Company, replaced the old International Bridge on Stanton Street between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso with a new structure of reinforced concrete in 1924. The bridge was replaced again dur...

American council on education

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Founded in 1918, the American Council on Education is a coordinating body for American institutions of higher education. From the guide to the American Council on Education Latin American Slide Collection N/A., 1945, (Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin) Founded in 1918, the American Council on Education (ACE) is the nation's unifying voice for higher education. ACE serves as a consensus leader on key higher education issues and seeks to influ...

Compton family

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Administrative Council

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Robnett, Ronald H.

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Radar Training School

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Kelso, James A. (James Anderson), 1873-1951

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Rockefeller Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation was established in May 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, by act of the New York State Legislature, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world". From its earliest years, several separate organizations and divisions have carried on the Foundation's work in carefully selected fields. In 1913, the International Health Board (originally the International Health Commission) was formed in order to extend the work of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradi...

Draper, C. S. (Charles Stark)

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Engineer, inventor, and educator. Born 1901; died 1987. From the description of C.S. Draper papers, 1773-1978 (bulk 1939-1973). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982304 Charles Stark Draper (1901-1987). BA, psychology, Stanford University (1922); BS, chemical engineering, ScD, physics (1938), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Instrumentation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1939-1969). From the description of Charles Stark Draper certificate...

Ford, Horace S.

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Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972

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Astronomer (galaxies, photometry, spectroscopy) and administrator. Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory, 1914-1921; director, Harvard Observatory, 1921-1952; on the astronomy faculty at Harvard from 1952. From the description of Papers [microform], 1910-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80523781 Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) was an astronomer. Shapley served as director of the Harvard College Observatory and was a professor at Harvard University, eventually he became the Pai...

Air University (U.S.)

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Sandoval Vallarta, Manuel, 1899-1977

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Nottingham, Wayne B. (Wayne Buckles), 1899-

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Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966

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Ketchum, Philip, 1902-

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chapel

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Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002

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Victor F. Weisskopf, Ph.D., University of Gottingen, Germany, 1931, was professor of Physics at MIT from 1946 until his retirement in 1974. He was director general of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961 to 1965. Weisskopf's research focus was theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics and nuclear particle physics. Other major affiliations include: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 1937-1943; Los Alamos, NM, USA, 1943-1947. Fro...

Hamilton, Leicester Forsyth, 1893-

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Foster, F. Leroy

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Schell, Erwin Haskell, 1889-1965

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Round Hill Field Station. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee

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Wilson, Robert E. (Robert Erastus), 1893-1964

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Chemical engineer, businessman, and public official. From the description of Robert E. Wilson papers, 1920-1964 (bulk 1945-1964). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452981 Biographical Note 1893, Mar. 19 Born, Beaver Falls, Pa. 1914 Ph.B., College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio ...

Bolt, Richard H.

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Bosworth, Welles, 1869-1966

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Rhind, D. L.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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A federally funded research laboratory founded in 1947. Operated by Associated Universities, Inc., sponsored by nine northeastern universities under a contract with the United States Department of Energy, the Laboratory conducts research in high energy physics, basic energy sciences, nuclear energy, nuclear and medium energy physics and chemistry, and basic life sciences, including biology and medical use and effects of radiation, radioisotopes, and other nuclear tools. Environmental and energy ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Charles Hayden Memorial Library

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Mid-Century Convocation on the Social Implications of Scientific Progress (1949 : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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The inauguration of James R. Killian as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's tenth president on April 2, 1949, was preceded by the two-day "Mid-Century Convocation on the Social Implications of Scientific Progress" on March 31 and April 1. The idea for the convocation originated in the wish of the MIT Corporation to examine the role MIT was to play in the post-war era, after the Institute had become a leader in government scientific research during World War II. The convocati...

Söderberg, C. Richard (Carl Richard), 1895-1979

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American Society for Engineering Education.

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Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974

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Physicist, engineer, government official, and science administrator. From the description of Vannevar Bush papers, 1901-1974 (bulk 1932-1955). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980014 Administrator, engineer. From the description of Reminiscences of Vannevar Bush : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569580 Biographical Note ...

Buerger, Martin Julian, 1903-

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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30 November 1874. He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before joining the Army in 1895 and serving in India and Sudan. After leaving the Army in 1899, he worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post and the following year was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Oldham. In 1904, Churchill decided to join the Liberal Party, and in 1906, was elected Liberal MP f...

Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1879-1949

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Cope, Arthur C.

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Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970

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United States Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Ralph Edward Flanders : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451699 Ralph E. Flanders was an American engineer, businessman, and legislator. He represented the people of Vermont in the United States Senate for twelve years. 1880 Born in Barnet, Vermont ...

Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978

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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist, educator and public servant. Conant taught chemistry at Harvard from 1917-1933; he served as Harvard's president from 1933-1953. He was the national director of defense research from 1941-1945, and was instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb. He continued as President of Harvard until 1953, at which time he was made United States High Commissioner for Germany. When allied military occupation of Germany ended in 1955, Conant became the U.S. A...

Floe, Carl F.

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Hutchinson, B. E. (B. Edwin), 1888-1961

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American business executive; vice president, Chrysler Corporation, 1925-1955; chairman of the board, Foundation for Economic Education; vice president, National Council of Churches. From the description of B. E. Hutchinson papers, 1914-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123429662 ...

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

Bitter, Francis, 1902-1967

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Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966

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Hunter was part of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, and a member of Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY, in 1904. He devoted his life to research, collecting, writing, and publishing the history of hand papermaking and printing. He published books at his Mountain House Press and established Lime Rock Mill, a paper mill in Connecticut. In 1939 he established the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at MIT, which later moved to the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Ga. F...

Houghton, Henry G.

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Green, Cecil Howard, 1900-2003

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Cecil H. and Ida M. Green are best known for philanthropy. Beginning in 1950 they gave millions of dollars to various institutions and organizations, and by 1988 their donations amounted to more than $150 million. In addition to financial gifts, they served as chairpersons on various fund raising events that helped generate many more millions of dollars from other donors. The Greens were not always millionaires. They started out on a modest income, and through hard work ...

Wurster, William Wilson

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Biographical Note William W. Wurster/Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons William Wilson Wurster, born in California in 1895, earned his degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1919. After obtaining his license in 1922, he worked briefly in firms in Sacramento and New York, then opened the firm William W. Wurster in 1924. He gained national recognition early in his career with an award-winning design for t...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Staff-Administration Committee

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Schmitt, Francis Otto, 1903-1995

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Molecular biologist (1903-1995). Schmitt received his bachelor's degree in 1924 and his Ph.D. in physiology in 1927 from Washington University. He served on the faculty of the university's Zoology department from1929 to 1941, when he was recruited by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to head its microbiology department and where he established the first U.S. center for electron microscopy. In 1962 Schmitt established the Neurosciences Research Program at the American Academy of Arts and ...

Ford Fund

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Wilbur, John Benson, 1905-

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Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986

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Stratton, Julius Adams, 1901-1994

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Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978

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In his nearly three decades of leadership of the natural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), Warren Weaver contributed substantially to the mid-century revolution in biology and agricultural science. Over a lifetime dedicated to building bridges across the sciences, he also contributed significantly to mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, and scientific associations. Warren Weaver was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin in 1894. He received his B.A. and Ph.D., as well as a Ce...

Taylor, Charles Fayette, 1894-1996

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Charles Fayette Taylor, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Instiute of Technology (MIT), was born in New York City in 1894. He enrolled in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1912 and received the bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1915. During World War I Taylor first served as a civilian inspector of aircraft material for the US Signal Corps. After three months he was appointed Ensign in the Naval Reserve Corps and placed in charge of the N...

M.I.T. Press.

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Voss, Walter C. (Walter Charles), 1887-

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MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Academic Council

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Little, Arthur D. (Arthur Dehon), 1863-1935

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Chemical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. Little and Roger B. Griffin founded the chemical firm, Griffin and Little, Boston, Mass., in 1886; incorporated as Arthur D. Little, Inc., in 1909. From the description of Papers, 1884-1973 (bulk 1900-1935). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149520 From the description of Papers of Arthur D. Little, 1884-1973 (bulk 1900-1935). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77756012 Biographical Note ...

Keyes, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1884-

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Hazen, Harold L. (Harold Locke), 1901-1980

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United States. Army Scientific Advisory Panel

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Lewis, Warren Kendall, 1882-

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Warren K. Lewis, 1882-1975, SB, 1905, MIT; PhD in chemistry, 1908, University of Breslau, Germany, became assistant professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1910 and professor of chemical engineering in 1914. From 1920 to1929 he served as the first head of the newly established Department of Chemical Engineering. He then returned full time to teaching and research. Warren K. Lewis played a significant role in establishing chemical engi...

Caldwell, Samuel Hawks, 1904-....

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Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976

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John Clarke Slater was a physicist. He graduated from Harvard (Ph. D. 1923) and continued his studies at Cambridge University. He also studied in Copenhagen for six months under Niels Bohr, with whom Slater worked again in 1929 on the quantum theory. He returned to the United States in 1930 to become head of the department of physics at M.I.T., where he worked with Karl Compton to transform the study of physics there. From the description of Papers, 1908-1976. (American Philosophical...

Thresher, B. Alden (Brainerd Alden), -1984

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White House Conference on Education (1955 : Washington, D.C.)

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Magoun, F. Alexander, 1896-

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Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-....

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Evans died in 1995. From the description of MIT Radioactivity Center, 1934-1945, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81567148 ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Project Troy

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Struik, Dirk J. (Dirk Jan), 1894-2000

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Physicist. From the description of Autobiography, chapter V:Leiden science, 1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80093408 Dirk Jan Struik, geboren in 1894, overleden in Belmont, Massachusetts in 2000, studeerde wis- en natuurkunde aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden; promoveerde in 1922 op een zuiver wiskundig onderwerp; als leerling van Paul Ehrenfest leerde hij Jan Burgers en Jan Tinbergen kennen, wilde evenals zij wiskunde en socialisme met elkaar verbinden en kwam ook in con...

Research Corporation

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A nonprofit foundation, now of Tucson, Arizona, the Research Corporation was incorporated in New York in 1912. Its purpose is to advance academic science and technology. It supports basic research in the natural and physical sciences and encourages the practical application of new discoveries. From the description of Records, 1919-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79391516 Foundation headquarters moved from New York to Tucson, Arizona in 1982. From the descrip...

Baker, Everett Moore, 1901-1950

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Samuelson, Paul A. (Paul Anthony), 1915-2009

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Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009) was a Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the description of Paul A. Samuelson papers, 1933-2010. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 664246147 1915, May 15 Born in Gary, Indiana, son of Russian-born parents Frank Samuelson and Ella Lipton 1932 ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Student-Faculty Curriculum Committee

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