06. School of Science

Abstract This collection documents the curricula of the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Studies in Biology began at MIT in 1871, when a course in natural history (Course 7) was established. In 1889, a new Department of Biology replaced the Course 7. Early study of bacteriology is documented in this collection by an 1892 volume of notes by W. T. Sedgwick, former head of the department. Over the course of its existence, the department underwent several shifts...

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Biology records span 1883 to 2017. Records include research summaries, annual reports, course brochures, Conversations with Scientists videos, and an archived version of the Department of Biology website.

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This collection contains student records kept by the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1941-2008.

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The collection comprises Department of Chemistry curricula dating from 1877 to 1985.

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The collection includes correspondence, memos, reports, clippings, photographs, and audio and video cassettes pertaining to the administrative functions of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

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This collection comprises student records maintained by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Student records in the collection were for undergraduate and graduate students that graduated between 1947 and 1996. Official student records are maintained by the Office of the Registrar.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mathematics curricula materials span from 1884 to 1979. The collection comprises primarily syllabi and course notes, with some examination questions.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection comprises reports prepared by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The bulk of the collection consists of reports prepared by the department between 1935 and 1961 for the MIT Department of Mathematics Visiting Committee of the MIT Corporation. The remainder of the collection is made up of reports describing the research activities of faculty members, dating between 1939 and 1966. Reports in the collection are arranged...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of student records kept by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from circa 1940-2010. Materials are primarily graduate student records, although some undergraduate student records from the mid-1960s and earlier are interfiled. Folders may contain any of the following records: part of the MIT application; reports on academic standing, including copies of grades; professors' evaluations; correspondence with professors; thesis...

Scope and Contents The early years of physics education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT) is documented in the "Plan of the Physical Laboratory" and "Report of the Physical Laboratory," by Edward C. Pickering, the first professor of physics at MIT.There are sets of notes taken by students in physics classes between 1903 and 1917. They are organized primarily by course. The professor teaching the course is usually identified on the first page of the notes.The collection...

Abstract Physics was taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the time classes were first offered in 1865. William B. Rogers, the founder and first president of MIT, was the first professor of physics. In 1869 Rogers established the "Physical Laboratory," probably the first laboratory for instruction in physics in the United States. In 1872 the lab was renamed the Rogers Laboratory of Physics. Physics became Course VIII in 1873. The collection consists of reports on research written...

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This collection contains student records kept by the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Scope and Contents Records received in 1990, boxes 1-8, 1940-1980, contain correspondence, reports, grant proposals, and other materials pertaining to the activities of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, 1946-1980; also includes raw data from experiments, 1940-1971, and technical specifications and instructions for operating laboratory equipment, including particle accelerators.The collection also includes archived versions of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Central Machine Shop, and Bates...

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The collection comprises the office files of Frederick Eppling, physicist and Associate Director at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS). Records include special projects at LNS, administrative files, course notes, and some general papers of Eppling's. Materials date from 1955 to 1985.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection contains the records of the Office of the Dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science. Records received in 1980, box 1, 1951-1976, contain minutes of meetings, proposals, and memoranda about Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty involvement with the Boston Museum of Science Education Committee, 1967-1978; information about the MIT Education Research Center; grant proposals for the National Science Foundation; correspondence about the...