Becoming MIT : moments of decision /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaiser, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. ©2010
Subjects:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology > History.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EDUCATION > Higher.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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