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Becoming MIT : moments of decision / edited by David Kaiser.
Van Pelt Library T171.M428 B43 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology--History.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780262113236
- 0262113236
- OCLC:
- 495547062
- Publisher Number:
- 99939891336
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