Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation

Scope and Contents of the Collection Records about Wiesner's activities at MIT include correspondence, memoranda, and reports from the Department of Electrical Engineering, correspondence about his involvement with the Council for the Arts, and information about his fund raising efforts. A tribute from the MIT faculty upon his retirement from the MIT presidency in 1980 is included. Wiesner's consulting to government, industry, private foundations, and other groups such as the President's Science Advisory Committee, 1960-1961,...

Abstract The Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation (NEROC) was formed in 1967 to promote radio and radar astronomy research in the northeastern United States, and to continue the work begun by its predecessor, the Cambridge Radio Observatory Committee (CAMROC) on a radio and radar astronomy research facility. NEROC is a non-profit consortium composed of Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, MIT, Polytechnic Institute of New York,...