Becoming MIT : moments of decision /
edited by David Kaiser.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
- vi, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780262113236 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262113236 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2009052641
GBB078073 bnb
015588833 Uk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology--History.
T171.M428 / B43 2010
378.744/4 / BEC
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780262113236 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262113236 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2009052641
GBB078073 bnb
015588833 Uk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology--History.
T171.M428 / B43 2010
378.744/4 / BEC