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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Dates
1865 – present
Authorized Form of Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Additional Forms of Names
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Physics Department
Institutional History
Abstract
The Physics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in 1865 and has produced the largest numbers of undergraduate and doctoral degrees in physics of any American university. Over 25 Nobel Laureates of Physics have had a connection to MIT with four winning for work done at MIT.
Department Chairs
1866-68, William Barton Rogers.
1868-77, Edward Pickering.
1877-1917, Charles Cross.
1917-22, Edwin Wilson.
1922-30, Charles Norton.
1930-52, John C. Slater.
1952-61, Nathaniel Frank.
1961-66, William Buechner.
1966-72, Victor Weisskopf.
1972-83, Herman Feshbach.
1983-88, Jerome Friedman.
1988-91, Robert Birgeneau.
1991-97, Ernest Moniz.
1998-2007, Marc Kastner.
2007-2013, Edmund Bertschinger.
2013-present, Peter H. Fisher.
Important Dates
1865William Barton Rogers proposed new laboratory of physics and mechanics be created.
1868Edward C. Pickering was appointed to a full professorship and wrote a "Plan of a Physical Laboratory.".
1872Physics laboratory named the Rogers Laboratory of Physics.
1874 – 1876Alexander Graham Bell was invited to use MIT's facilities and his work at MIT led directly to his invention of the telephone.
1897William Coolidge was on faculty.
1902 – 1904Frank Jewett was on faculty.
1916Physics Department with the rest of MIT moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge (Mass.).
1919 – 1920David Webster was on faculty.
1928 – 1949Julius Stratton was on faculty.
1930 – 1932Thomas Killian was on faculty.
1930 – 1966John C. Slater was on faculty.
1931 – 1932Robert Bacher was on faculty.
1931 – 1960Robert Van de Graaff was on faculty.
1931 – 1985Philip Morse was on faculty.
1932 – 1934Norris Bradbury was on faculty.
1933 – 1934William Hansen was on faculty.
1934 – 1960Francis Bitter was on faculty.
1937 – 1939W. Conyers Herring was on faculty.
1938Robley D. Evans helped organized the building of MIT's first cyclotron.
1938 – 1986M. Stanley Livingston was on faculty.
1939 – 1940Marvin Chodorow was on faculty.
1940 – 1945MIT chosen as site to host a new laboratory for radar research, known as the Radiation Laboratory.
1941 – 2000Herman Feshbach was on faculty.
1941 – 2002Martin Deutsch was on faculty.
1942 – 1944Elias Burstein was on faculty.
1945 – 1947John Galt was on faculty.
1945 – 1948Herbert Callen was on faculty.
1945 – 2002Victor Weisskopf was on faculty.
1946 – 1949Martin Klein was on faculty.
1946 – 1985Bruno Rossi was on faculty.
1946 – 1986Jerrold Zacharias was on faculty.
1948 – 1950Larry Spruch was on faculty.
1949J. David Jackson was on faculty.
1949 – 1950Marvin "Murph" Goldberger was on faculty.
1949 – 1965William Kraushaar was on faculty.
1950A 300-MeV electron synchrotron and a 12-MeV electrostatic generator went into operation.
1950 – 1976Frederick Keyes was on faculty.
1951 – 1954George Schulz was on faculty.
1952 – 1956Sidney Drell was on faculty.
1955 – 2001Clifford Shull was on faculty.
1955 – 2008Harold Enge was on faculty.
1956 – 2003Norman Rasmussen was on faculty.
1957 – 1960Jurgen Moser was on faculty.
1957 – 2007Francis Low was on faculty.
1958MIT had its own experimental nuclear reactor.
1958 – presentGeorge Benedek has been on faculty.
1960 – presentJerome Friedman has been on faculty.
1961 – 1967Charles Townes was on faculty.
1961 – 1999Henry Kendall was on faculty.
1962A joint Harvard-MIT electron synchrotron provided both with accelerator energies up to 6-GeV.
1962 – presentAli Javan has been on faculty.
1964 – presentRainer Weiss has been on faculty.
1965 – 2005Philip Morrison was on faculty.
1965 – 2015Benjamin Lax was on faculty.
1967 – presentSamuel Ting has been on faculty.
1968 – presentBruno Coppi has been on faculty.
1969 – 1970George Bertsch was on faculty.
1969 – 1973Steven Weinberg was on faculty.
1969 – 1976H. Eugene Stanley was on faculty.
1969 – presentRoman Jackiw has been on faculty.
1973 – 1975Elliott Lieb was on faculty.
1973 – presentMarc Kastner has been on faculty.
1974 – presentJohn Joannopoulos has been on faculty.
1974 – presentDaniel Kleppner has been on faculty.
1975 – 2000Robert Birgeneau was on faculty.
1976 – 1978William Phillips was on faculty.
1977 – presentJeffrey Goldstone has been on faculty.
1977 – presentMiklos Porkolab has been on faculty.
1981 – presentAlan Guth has been on faculty.
1982 – presentPatrick Lee has been on faculty.
1986 – 1987Nicholas Read was on faculty.
1989 – 1990Lyman Page was on faculty.
1989 – 1996Boris Altshuler was on faculty.
1990 – presentWolfgang Ketterle has been on faculty.
1991 – 2001Lisa Randall was on faculty.
1997 – 2002Victoria Kaspi was on faculty.
2000 – presentFrank Wilczek has been on faculty.
2001 – presentDaniel Freedman has been on faculty.
2001 – presentDavid Pritchard has been on faculty.
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Citations
Historical information from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics history webpage.
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Professor of physics.
Karl H. Compton Lecturer.
Benedek, George Bernard, 1928-
Assistant Professor to Professor in Physics; and Fred H. Caspary Professor of Physics and Biological Physics.
Assistant Professor of Physics.
Bertschinger, Edmund William
Department chair.
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Visiting Professor.
Birgeneau, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1942-
Professor of Physics; Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics; Head, Solid State Atomic and Plasma Physics; and Head, Department of Physics.
Associate Professor of Metallurgy; Associate Professor of Physics; and Professor of Physics.
Visiting Professor of Physics.
Brode, Robert B. (Robert Bigham), 1900-1986
Visiting Associate Professor.
Buechner, William W. (William Weber), 1914-1985
Department chair.
Research Associate.
Received PhD in 1947. Research Associate.
Visiting Professor.
Received PhD in 1939. Assistant in Physics.
Conwell, Esther M. (Esther Marley), 1922-2014
Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor.
Coolidge, William David, 1873-1975
Assistant in Physics.
Professor of Physics and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Cross, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1848-1921
Department chair.
Professor of Physics.
Received BS and PhD in 1941 (Physics). Instructor in Physics, Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics, Director, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1926-
Research Associate and Assistant Professor of Physics.
Professor of Physics and Professor of Physics Emerita.
Instructor in Physics, Assistant Professor of Physics, Associate Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, and Professor Emeritus of Physics.
Visiting Professor.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1942, Instructor in Physics, Assistant Professor of Physics, Associate Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Director of Center for Theoretical Physics, Chair, Department of Physics, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Institute Professor, and Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Received BS.
Fisher, Peter H.
Department chair.
Visiting Professor of Physics.
Frank, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Herman), 1903-1984
Department chair.
Visiting Scientist and Professor of Physics.
Friedman, Jerome I. (Jerome Isaac), 1930-
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Director, Nuclear Science Laboratory; William A. Coolidge Professor; Institute Professor; Head, Department of Physics; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Received PhD in 1947. Research Associate.
Received BSc; Received PhD (Physics) in 1977; and Director, Office of Minority Education.
Karl T. Compton Lecturer.
Visiting Professor.
Research Associate in physics.
Professor of Physics; Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics; Director, Center for Theoretical Physics; Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Emeritus.
Received SB; Received PhD (Physics) in 1972; Associate Professor; Professor; Jerrold Zacharias Professor of Physics; and Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics.
Visiting Scientist.
Herring, William Conyers, 1914-
National Research Council (NRC) Fellow.
Assistant Professor; Jerrold Zacharias Professor of Physics; and Jerrold Zacharias Professor of Physics, Emeritus.
Jackson, John David, 1925-2016
Received PhD (1949); and Research Associate.
Associate Professor to Professor of Physics, Francis Wright Professor, and Professor Emeritus of Physics.
Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1879-1949
Instructor.
Joannopoulos, J. D. (John D.), 1947-
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, and Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics.
Kaspi, Victoria Michelle, 1967-
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Space Research and Assistant Professor of Physics.
Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics; Donner Professor of Science; Department Chair; Head, Division of Atomic, Condensed Matter and Plasma Physics; Associate Director, Consortium Superconducting Electronics; and Director, Center for Materials Science and Engineering.
Kendall, Henry W. (Henry Way), 1926-1999
Received PhD (Nuclear Physics) in 1955; Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; and J. A. Stratton Professor of Physics.
Research Associate; Assistant Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics; and Director, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms.
Keyes, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1885-1976
Emeritus Professor and Lecturer in Physics.
Killian, T. J. (Thomas Joseph), 1905-
Received SB; Received SM; and Instructor in Physics.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1948 and Research Associate in Physics.
Professor of Physics; Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics; and Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics Emeritus.
Research Associate; Assistant Professor; and Professor of Physics.
Received PhD (1949); Professor and Professor Emeritus.
Visiting Professor.
Lee, P. A. (Patrick A.), 1946-
Received BS in 1966 and PhD in 1970. Professor of Physics and William and Emma Rogers Professor of Physics.
Received BSc and Professor of Physics.
Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)
Professor of Physics and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007
Professor of Physics; Karl Compton Professor of Physics; Provost; Institute Professor Emeritus; Director, Center for Theoretical Physics.
Moniz, E.
Department chair.
Professor of Physics, Institute Professor, and Institute Professor Emeritus.
Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985
Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Director, Underwater Sound Laboratory; Director, Operations Research Center; Director, Computation Center; Professor Emeritus.
Norton, Charles L.
Department chair.
Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919
Department chair.
Professor of Physics.
Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; and Professor of Physics.
Received PhD (1956) and Instructor.
Research Fellow.
Received BS in 1992.
Rogers, William Barton, 1804-1882
Founder of department and first department chair.
Professor; Institute Professor; and Emeritus Institute Professor.
Received PhD (1954) in Physics. Assistant Professor.
Professor and Professor Emeritus.
Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976
Professor of physics, Head, Physics department, and Institute professor.
Stanley, H. Eugene (Harry Eugene), 1941-
Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; and Herman von Helmholtz Associate Professor of Health Science and Technology.
Stratton, Julius Adams, 1901-1994
Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; and Professor.
Ting, S. C. C. (Samuel Chao-chung), 1936-
Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; and Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor.
Provost, Professor of Physics, and Institute Professor.
Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967
Research Associate and Associate Professor of Physics.
Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976
Assistant Professor of physics.
Professor of Physics.
Received BS (1955) and PhD (1962); Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Phyics; and Professor of Physics, Emeritus.
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Institute Professor; Emeritus Institute Professor; and Department Head.
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics.
Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964
Department chair.
Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986
Professor of Physics; Institute Professor; Emeritus Institute Professor.
PhD Students
Bennett, Charles L. (Charles Leonard), 1956-
Received PhD in 1984.
Biondi, Manfred Anthony, 1924-
Received SB in 1944 and PhD in 1949.
Received PhD in 1957.
Clark, N. A. (Noel Anthony), 1940-
Received PhD in 1970.
Received SB in 1938 and PhD in 1941.
Received PhD in 1990.
Feigenbaum, Mitchell, 1944-2019
Received PhD (Theoretical Physics) in 1970.
Fisk, James B. (James Brown), 1910-1981
Received SB in 1931 and PhD (Theoretical Physics) in 1935.
Received PhD in 1965.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1951.
Received PhD (Theoretical Physics) in 1969.
Received PhD in 1988.
Received SB in 1968 and PhD in 1973.
Received PhD (Theoretical Physics) in 1975.
Kraichnan, Robert H., 1928-2008
Received BS and PhD (Physics) in 1949.
Received PhD in 1979.
Received SM in 1943 and PhD in 1947.
Received BS and PhD (Physics) in 1947.
Received PhD in 1986.
Received BS in 1973 and PhD in 1978.
Noyce, Robert N. (Robert Norton), 1927-1990
Received PhD in Physical Electronics (1953).
Received PhD (1989) and Research Fellow.
Phillips, William D. (William Daniel), 1948-
Received PhD (1976) and Chaim Weizmann Fellow.
Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-1971
Received Ph.D. in 1937.
Received PhD (1936).
Received BS (1966) and PhD (1970).
Received PhD (1982).
Received BS (1941) and PhD (1943).
Received PhD (1958).
Received PhD (1950).
Received SB in 1979 and PhD in 1988.
Associates & Members
Abrahams, S. C. (Sidney Cyril), 1924-
Allen, Mildred, 1894-1990
Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004
National Research Fellow in Physics.
Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996
BenDaniel, David J.
Beranek, Leo L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016
Biedenharn, L. C.
Received BS in 1956.
Blake, Francis, 1850-1913
National Research Fellow in Physics.
Brossel, Jean
Clarke, Edward N.
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974
Received BS in 1978.
Received BS in physics.
Davis, M. (Marc)
Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966
Received BS.
Doering, Robert, 1946-
Received SM and ScD in 1938 (Physics).
Duntley, Seibert Q.
Dylla, H. F.
Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-
Fan, H. Y.
Finkelstein, David Ritz, 1929-
Fisher, Leon H. (Leon Harold), 1918-
Garmire, Elsa M., 1939-
Goldman, Stanford
Gordon, Eugene I., 1930-
Gould, Alice Bache, 1868-1953
Green, Cecil Howard, 1900-2003
Grover, Frederick W. (Frederick Warren), 1876-1973
Hansen, W. W. (William Webster), 1909-1949
National Research Fellow.
Harwit, Martin, 1931-
Herb, R. G. (Raymond George), 1908-1996
Herman, Frank
Hildebrand, Joel Henry, 1881-1983
Holden, Alan
Received BS (1965) and MS (1966).
Horton, Joseph Warren, 1889-1967
Hunt, Frederick V.
Received M.S. in physics.
Ingard, K. Uno
Johnson, Vivian A. (Vivian Annabelle), 1912-
Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-
Killian, James Rhyne, 1904-1988
King, John, 1925-2014
Kip, Arthur F.
Kistiakowsky, Vera
Undergraduate studies from 1934-1936, no degree received.
Klick, Clifford C., 1918-
Krutter, Harry, 1911-
Latham, David W.
Libby, Willard F.
Lindsay, Robert Bruce, 1900-
Lust, Reimar, 1923-
MacDonald, Gordon J. (Gordon James), 1929-2002
Macdonald, J. Ross (James Ross), 1923-
Received SB and SM, and took graduate physics courses.
Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992
Maurer, Robert Joseph, 1913-
Mickens, Ronald E., 1943-
Mimno, Harry Rowe, 1900-
Received BS (1965).
Phelps, Arthur V. (Arthur Van Rensselaer), 1923-
Received BS in 1952 and PhD in 1956.
Ruina, J. P. (Jack P.)
Sands, Matthew L. (Matthew Linzee)
Saxon, David S.
Received BS (1967).
Schrieffer, J. R. (John Robert), 1931-
Received BS (1953).
Schwartz, Charles Leon, 1931-
Scully, Marlan O. (Marlan Orvil), 1939-
Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992
Received BS (1951).
Spilhaus, Athelstan
Received BS (1963).
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Postdoctoral Fellow.
Stockmayer, W. H. (Walter H.)
Received SB (1961).
Received BS (1961).
Received MS (1951) and PhD (1954).
Turner, Edwin Lewis
Received BS (1981).
Van Loon, H., 1925-
Varney, Robert N.
Villars, Donald Statler, 1900-
Von Hippel, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1898-
Received SB (1951).
Weaver, Harold F.
Weeks, Dorothy Walcott, 1893-1990
Welton, Theodore Allen, 1918-
Received BS (1960).
Whitford, Albert E. (Albert Edward), 1905-2002
Received BS (1973).
Wilson, Richard, 1926-
Witten, Louis
Woodall, Jerry M.
Woodyard, John R., 1904-1981
Wooldridge, Dean E.
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Collaborators
Harvard University. Department of Physics
Created a joint electron synchrotron, which provided both with accelerator energies up to 6-GeV.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
First-year physics laboratory manual, 1931-1937.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics curriculum materials, 1874-1917.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics letter to Lewis Mumford, 1959.
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library
University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics records of advanced physics, 1874-1879.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics records, 1875-1901.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Materials related to the teaching of physics at MIT, 1936-1939.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Pages from catalogs listing faculty of the MIT Physics Department, 1900-1939.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Physics colloquium: celebration in honor of the 100th birthday of Laszlo Tisza [videorecording], 2007 May 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
The Laboratory circular, 18747-1878.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Subject
A life in physics : Bell Telephone Laboratories and World War II, Columbia University and the laser, MIT and government service, California and research in astrophysics, 1991-1992.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Alice Bache Gould papers, 1778-1939.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Ben Bederson interview of Larry Spruch, Sidney Borowitz and Ed Gerjuoy [videorecording], 26 July 2004.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Cambridge Electron Accelerator records, 1952-1974.
Archives. Pusey Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Charles Hard Townes papers, 1948-1996.
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Crystallographic career of Sidney Cyril Abrahams: Contribution to American Crystallographic Association history project, 2011.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Donald Statler Villars intellectual autobiography, 1964.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Elmer Hutchisson papers, 1919-1982.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Excursions in the domain of physics, 1965.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Francis Blake papers, 1866-1913.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Harold E. Edgerton papers, 1889-1990.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Interview with Leo Beranek, [videorecording] recorded by Joseph Leary; 1998 April 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
J. Ross Macdonald papers, 1932-1989.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
Jabez Curry Street papers, circa 1952-1956.
Archives. Pusey Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
James Rhyne Killian papers, 1923-1988.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
John C. Slater manuscript and autobiography, 1975.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
John Clarke Slater correspondence and autobiographical account of the history of writing of the Bohr-Kramer-Slater paper in 1924, 1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lawrence Bidenharn papers, 1931-1997.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
National Company (NATCO) atomic clocks records, 1955-1968.
Archives Center
Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American History
MRC 601, 12th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
Notes on lectures given at M.I.T., 1941-1944.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
On the atomic models of the alkali metals, 1924.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alan Guth, 1987 September 21 and 1988 March 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alan Holden, 1974 July 30 and 1976 June 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Albert Edward Whitford, 1977 July 15 and 1978 July 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alex Dalgarno, 2007 December 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Arthur Frederic Kip, 1982 June 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Arthur V. Phelps, 2008 October 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Arthur von Hippel, 1981 October 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus, 1989 November 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Bruno Benedetto Rossi, 1976 July 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Cecil Howard Green, 1994 October 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1984 January 28 and 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles Leon Schwartz, 1987 May 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles Stark Draper, 1983.
Oral History Research Office
Columbia University
Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA
Oral history interview with Cherry Ann Murray, 2006 January 17 and March 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Clifford C. Klick, 1982 April 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Cyril Stanley Smith, 1976 September 23.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with David BenDaniel, 2008 October 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Finkelstein, 2013 February 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Lazarus, 1981 December 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Locke Webster, 1964 May 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Schramm, 1988 March 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David W. Latham, 2006 October 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Dean E. Wooldridge, 1976 August 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Dorothy Walcott Weeks, 1978 July 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edward N. Clarke, 2010 September 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin Bidwell Wilson, 1963 June.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin C. Kemble, 1962 May 11 to 1963 October 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin Turner, 1988 February 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Elmer Hutchisson, 1970 October 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Elsa Meints Garmire, 1985 February 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Eugene I. Gordon, 2000 March 23.
IEEE History Center
Rutgers University
39 Union Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Oral history interview with Frank Herman, 1982 June 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Frederick Vinton Hunt, 1964 December 18 and 1965 January 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Frederick Warren Grover, 1964 March 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Gordon J. F. MacDonald, 1994 March 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Gordon J. MacDonald, 1986 April 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with H. Frederick Dylla, 2010 October 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Harald Anton Enge, 1987 August 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Harold F. Weaver, 1977 July 20 and 1978 July 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Harry Krutter, 1980 March 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Harry Rowe Mimno, 1977 February 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Harry Van Loon, 2004 September 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Henry Way Kendall, 1986 November 25 and 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Hsu Yun Fan, 1977 April 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Jack P. Ruina, 1991 August 8.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with James Brown Fisk, 1976 June 24.
Oral history interview with Jean Brossel, 1983 March 3 and 8.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Jerry Woodall, 2010 November 8.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Joel Henry Hildebrand, 1962 August 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1963 October 3 and 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1970 February 23 and August 7.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John F. Waymouth, 2008 October 14.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John G. King, 2009 November 17.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John Huchra, 1987 December 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John R. Woodyard, 1974 October 18 and 1975 December 17.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with Jule G. Charney, 1980 August 25, 26, 27 and 28.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with K. Uno Ingard, 2007 July 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Leland J. Haworth, 1977 March 9.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Leo Beranek, 2009 August 10.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Leon H. Fisher and Robert N. Varney, 2008 July 26.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Louis Witten, 2011 March 17.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Manfred Biondi, 2008 August 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Marc Davis, 1988 October 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Marlan O. Scully, 2004 July 15 and 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral History interview with Martin Harwit, 1983 April 19, June 20, and June 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Matthew L. Sands, 1987 May 4 and 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Mildred Allen, 1979 June 18.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Mildred S. Dresselhaus, 1976 June 7, 15, August 11, 19, September 13, 20, 22, 24, 30, and October 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Milton Stanley Livingston, 1967 August 21.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Murray Gell-Mann, 1997 July 17 and 18.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Norris Edwin Bradbury, 1976 February 11.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Peter J. W. Debye, 1962 May 3 and 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 1967 February 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 2003 February 22 and August 1.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Raymond George Herb, 1976 April.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Raymond George Herb, 1982 October 8.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Reimar Lust, 2000 December 2.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Richard Phillips Feynman, 1966 March 4 to 4 February 1973.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Richard Wilson, 1977 February 10.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert Bruce Lindsay, 1964 May 6 and July 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert Doering, 2008 December 9.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1986 February 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert Joseph Maurer, 1981 March 10 and 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970 June 15, 16, September 19, and October 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robley D. Evans, 1972 May 2, 3, 1974 May 5 and 1978 June 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Roman Jackiw, 2010 August 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Sidney D. Drell, 1986 July 1.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Thomas Lauritsen, 1967 February 16.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Vannevar Bush, 1964.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Oral history interview with Vera Kistiakowsky, 1976 April 27, May 11, 26, June 15, August 26, and September 1.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Victor Frederick Weisskopf, 1966 September 21 and December 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Vivian Annabelle Johnson, 1981 July 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William Conyers Herring, 1974 July 23, 29, and 31 October.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William Shockley, 1974 September 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Phillip M. Morse autobiographical data, circa 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Reminiscences of a Rolling Stone [autobiography], 1977.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Reminiscences of Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge : oral history, 1960.
Oral History Research Office
Columbia University
Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA
Robert F. Bacher papers, 1924-1994.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Seibert Duntley papers, 1940-1980.
Mandeville Special Collections Library
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Stanford Goldman response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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The genesis of the National Society of Black Physicists [undated].
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Theodore Welton memories, circa 1984.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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University of California President : David S. Saxon : oral history transcript / interviewed by James V. Mink and Dale E. Treleven ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.
University Research Library. Department of Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1575, USA
Victor Weisskopf lecture notes on nuclear structure, 1956.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Walter Stockmayer papers, 1901-2004.
Rauner Special Collections Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755, USA
William D. Coolidge autobiographical notes, circa 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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William W. Hansen papers, 1925-1974.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Published Resources
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An introduction to optics / by Francis Weston Sears.
Ballistic missile defense / Ashton B. Carter and David N. Schwartz, editors.
Biomedical physics and biomaterials science. Edited by H. Eugene Stanley.
Scientific societies in the United States.
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The university and military research; moral politics at M.I.T.