Karl Taylor Compton Lectures.
Karl Taylor Compton lectures records, 1957-1999.
This collection contains correspondence and background material about the lectures; and audio tapes of the lectures of Otto Struve (1959), Andre Lwoff (1960), John Kemeny (1980), Freeman Dyson (1982), and Isidor I. Rabi (1962). Also included are tapes of the panel discussion 40 Years After: Los Alamos, MIT, and the Bomb by men who worked in MITs Radiation Laboratory or on the Manhattan Project: Francis Low, Victor Weisskopf, Martin Deutsch, Bernard Feld, Anthony French, D. H. Frisch, Philip Morrison, Cyril S. Smith, Jerome Weisner, and Jerrold Zacharias.
The Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Series at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was established in 1957 to honor Karl Taylor Compton, who served as president of MIT from 1930 to 1948 and chairman of the MIT Corporation from 1948 to 1954. The purpose of the lectureship is to bring to the campus scholars noted for their universality of thought and influence on human values. The lecturers are chosen from a broad spectrum of fields, including science, philosophy, religion, education, and the humanities.
Deutsch, Martin, 1917-2002
Dyson, Freeman J.
Feld, Bernard Taub, 1919-
French, A. P. (Anthony Philip), 1920-
Frisch, David H.
Kemeny, John G.
Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007
Lwoff, Andr,̌ 1902-
Morrison, Philip
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-
Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -- Research.
40 years after: Los Alamos, M.I.T., and the bomb.
The day after Trinity.
Nuclear weapons -- Research.
Lectures lcgft
Sound recordings lcgft
Deutsch, Martin, 1917-2002
Feld, Bernard Taub, 1919-
AIP-ICOS
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