Becoming MIT : moments of decision / edited by David Kaiser.

Date:
[2010], ©2010
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2010], ©2010.

Physical description

vi, 207 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Introduction: moments of decision / David Kaiser -- "God speed the institute": the foundational years, 1861-1894 / Merritt Roe Smith -- Mergers and acquisitions / Bruce Sinclair -- Patrons and a plan / Christophe Lécuyer -- MIT and war / Deborah Douglas -- Elephant on the Charles: postwar growing pains / David Kaiser -- "Time of troubles" for the special laboratories / Stuart W. Leslie -- "Refrain from using the alphabet": how community outreach catalyzed the life sciences at MIT / John Durant -- Putting gender on the table / Lotte Bailyn, with an afterword by Nancy Hopkins -- Epilogue / Susan Hockfield.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    AB.AS.614
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ISBN

  • 9780262113236
  • 0262113236