Book ID: CBB001021593

Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision (2010)

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Kaiser, David Isaac (Editor)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: vi + 207 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Wisnioski, Matt (2011) Review of "Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision". Technology and Culture (p. 859). unapi

Review Angulo, A. J. (2012) Review of "Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 74). unapi

Review Johnson, Ann (2012) Review of "Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 161). unapi

Essay Review Owens, Larry (2014) MIT at a Hundred and Fifty. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 109-111). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Sinclair, Bruce (2010) Mergers and Acquisitions. In: Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. unapi

Chapter Lécuyer, Christophe (2010) Patrons and a Plan. In: Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. unapi

Chapter Kaiser, David (2010) Elephant on the Charles: Postwar Growing Pains. In: Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. unapi

Chapter Leslie, Stuart W. (2010) “Time of Troubles” for the Special Laboratories. In: Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. unapi

Chapter Bailyn, Lotte (2010) Putting Gender on the Table. In: Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. unapi

Chapter Smith, Merritt Roe (2010) “God Speed the Institute”: The Foundational Years, 1861--1894. In: Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. unapi

Chapter Douglas, Deborah (2010) MIT and War. In: Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. unapi

Chapter Durant, John (2010) “Refrain from Using the Alphabet”: How Community Outreach Catalyzed the Life Sciences at MIT. In: Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sutherland, Serenity
Achbari, Azadeh
DeVivo, Michael S.
Williams, Clarence G.
Weininger, Stephen J.
Tuttle, Kelly
Journals
Ferrum
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
History of Science
Chemical Heritage
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Publishers
MIT Press
Western Michigan University
University Press of New England
University of Illinois Press
Praeger
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concepts
Universities and colleges
Women in science
Science education and teaching
Students
Science and war; science and the military
Science and gender
People
Yudintsev, Sergei Dmitrievich
Swallow, Ellen
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Ainley, Marianne (Marika) Gosztonyi
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Moscow (Russia)
Southern states (U.S.)
Atlantic Ocean
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia)
Moskovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States Military Academy
Royal Institution of Great Britain
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