Abstract Harold Locke Hazen, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a member of the MIT faculty from 1931 to 1972, serving as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1938-1951, and Dean of the Graduate School, 1952-1967. His work was in the field of machine computation, automatic control, and servomechanisms. During World War II he was head of Division 7, Fire Control, of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). The collection contains research notes and...

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The collection comprises a document titled "On the Heating and Cooling of Solids of Special Shape" created by Harold P. Gurney in 1923.

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The collection documents the activities of Harriet Ritvo who was a professor of history at MIT beginning in 1979. Materials in the collection, spanning 1965 - 2020, document her academic career. They consist of research materials, notes, and drafts of her writing, conference talks, essays, and course materials related to classes Ritvo taught at MIT.

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The collection of physicist Harry E. Clifford consists of a notebook entitled "Precision of Measurements, 1897," probably lecture notes for course 342, Precision of Measurement, taught by Clifford at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the academic year 1896-1897.

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Harry Manley Goodwin was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1890 to 1940 in the Department of Physics. He also served in several administrative positions. The collection contains correspondence with MIT colleagues during the period Goodwin was a professor of physics; and correspondence, speeches, memoranda, and news releases from the period he was dean of graduate students and of the graduate school.

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The collection contains writings of Harry D. Newman, 1983 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work as an undergraduate includes class assignments, one-act plays, poetry, and his play Laundromat, submitted as his bachelor's thesis. Among his later work in the collection are plays, poetry, and short stories; and articles, essays, and lectures on theater and non traditional casting

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection documents the career of Harry Walter Tyler. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tyler was member of the MIT faculty in the Department of Mathematics from 1889 to 1930. The collection includes a biographical sketch, correspondence between Harry W. Tyler and his parents (1887-1889), and other family correspondence. There are journals about Tyler's travels to England and Germany (1887-1888), and notebooks from classes he took in Göttingen and Erlangen....

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This collection comprises the student records of graduate students and withdrawn students in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Student records date from 1975 to 2006 and are arranged alphabetically. Official student records are administered by the Office of the Registrar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and are not found in this collection.

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The Heinrich A. Medicus papers consists of several sets of notes used for lectures on physics topics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1950s. One set of materials is noted as Dr. Bitter's copy, referring to Francis Bitter, professor of physics at MIT and director of the Magnet Laboratory at MIT.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Henry Eastin Rossell from approximately 1931 to 1937. Materials include handwritten lecture notes, typescript chapters from Principles of Naval Architecture, and research notes including data tables and blueprints.

Scope and Contents of the Collection Collection includes correspondence and notes about Houghton's research, including studies of the fundamental physical properties of fog; apparatus and methods for measuring fog particles; the resistance of fog and clouds to the transmission of visible light and radiant rays; and methods for the artificial dissipation of fog. Correspondence and research notes document the studies of the growth and evaporation of salt water Houghton conducted as a consultant for the General Public Utilities...

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Collection includes Henry Guerlac's draft of History of Radar in World War II and an abbreviated edition.

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The collection comprises articles co-authored by Marcus and course syllabi.

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The collection consists of speeches and publications of Henry Smith Pritchett, who was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1900 to 1907.

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The collection documents the professional activites of Henry W. Kendall between the approximate years of 1961 to 1997.

Materials include: reports, correspondence, notes, articles, and administrative files.

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The collection documents the activities of Herbert Uhlig spanning the years of approximately 1940 to 1975.

Materials include: correspondence, journals, notebooks, audiotapes, and slides.

Abstract The collection documents the work of Herbert L. Beckwith, a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Architecture from 1926 until his retirement in 1968. As senior partner in the firm of Anderson, Beckwith, and Haible, he co-designed a number of MIT buildings including the Dorrance Building, the Whitaker Building, Rockwell Cage, McCormick Hall, and the Alumni Pool. He was also associated with Eero Saarinen in the development of Kresge...

Scope and Contents of the Collection Herbert Stewart's years as a student at the Massachusestts Institute of Technology (MIT) are recorded in student and course notes for classes in electrical engineering, 1923 1924. There is some correspondence with Vannevar Bush about the Product Integraph. His activities as a consulting engineer are documented in articles, reports, and correspondence on issues of energy and high voltage electric systems, including projects for the New England Electric Power Service and Westinghouse Electric...

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The collection documents the professional activities of Herbert Bridge from 1947 to 1956. Materials inlcude research notebooks, notes, data, calculations, graphs, manuscripts, presentations, conference notes, correspondence, and photographs.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection includes Scoville's outgoing correspondence, 1975-1985, as well as his newspaper editorials and unpublished writings on weapons control and U.S. defense policy. His papers also contain extensive reference files, which he used to provide support for his writings, speeches, and congressional testimony relating to arms control. Correspondence and clippings describe his work in arms control with the Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs, the Federation of American...

Abstract The Herman N. Eisen papers document the professional life of Herman Eisen (1918-2014), a professor of Biology at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (previously the MIT Center for Cancer Research). Herman Eisen’s focus on immunology can be seen in laboratory notes and data sets, many authored by Eisen’s students and assistants, as well as research materials and articles co-authored by Eisen and some of his students, photographs, and correspondence he maintained with his former...

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The collection contains Herman Meissner's correspondence with E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company and the New Jersey Zinc Company on teflon powder pellitizing and the processing of zinc. Also contains research notebooks and reprints of his articles.

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The collection documents the activities of Hermann Anton Haus, an Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spanning the years of 1985 to 2003.

Materials include: correspondence, course notes, presentations, awards, photographs, videotapes.

Abstract The collection documents the High Voltage Engineering Corporation, a company founded in 1947 by Robert J. Van de Graaff, Denis M. Robinson, and John G. Trump, all members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) faculty. Manufacturing operations began with the development and manufacture of particle accelerators, and then electromagnetic and neutron generators. The records consist of technical notes and drawings left by Robert J. Van de Graaff, chief scientist and one of the...

Scope and Contents This archive represents a small, but very important portion of documentation available of the architect Hisham Munir's records, which includes oral history recordings, records concerning the content covered in the interviews (such as illustrations or notes), several texts, and descriptions of projects provided by Hisham Munir. The interviews with Hisham Munir were conducted by Michael Kubo and Michael A. Toler on April 11 and 12, 2015. There are unpublished notes kept during...