Becoming MIT : moments of decision / edited by David Kaiser.
- Date:
- [2010], ©2010
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2010], ©2010.
Physical description
vi, 207 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Location Status History of MedicineAB.AS.614Open shelves
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- 9780262113236
- 0262113236