Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection documents the personal and professional life of John M. Buchanan. It contains many of Buchanan’s research publications, as well as articles written by him about the history of the field of biochemistry. The collection also contains letters, photographs, teaching materials, newspaper clippings, materials relating to Department of Biology’s history and students he mentored. Included is a video production covering the scientific symposium held at MIT in 1987 honoring Professor...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains minutes, reports, and correspondence of the Committee on MIT Research Structure and the Committee on Education Division at MIT; grant proposals; notes; and memoranda. There are letters of recommendation and applications for post-doctoral research positions. Also includes correspondence with colleagues in government, academia, and industry related to energy and defense issues.Deutch's MIT records form a separate collection in the Institute Archives,...

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The collection documents the professional activities of John P. Longwell from approximately 1970 to 1998. Materials include correspondence, reports, proposals, and consulting files.

Abstract The collection documents the activities of John Ripley Freeman, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later a member of the MIT Corporation. Freeman worked as a consulting engineer for almost sixty years, 1876-1932. Project files containing correspondence, photographs, drafts and published reports, maps, diaries, computation and data, clippings, reprints and transcripts of testimony record his work on over 100 projects in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and...

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The collection contains John T. Norton's course notes, problem sets, quizzes, and lab projects from classes Norton taught in X-ray Metallography (3.50) and Materials Science II (3.51), 1950-1964. Also includes correspondence about consulting work, and writings about metallurgy and x-ray metallurgy.

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The collection contains correspondence, reports, and drafts of working papers of members of the Joint Center for Urban Studies Guayana Project in Venezuela. Report topics are as follows: A is Public Administration, B is Economic Factors, C is Social Factors, D is Physical Planning-Regional, E is Physical Planning-Urban, F is General and Miscellaneous.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Jonathan Allen. Materials in the collection date from approximately 1950 to 1999. Materials include correspondence, lectures and lecture notes, slides, course notes, and meeting materials.

Scope and Contents The Jordan J. Baruch papers consist primarily of writings and presentations by Baruch, as well as correspondence. While these materials comprise the bulk of the collection, the papers also include course notes, reports, meeting agendas and minutes, photographs, clippings, background material, and some ephemera. The collection spans the years 1946 to 2011, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1970s and 1980s.The materials contained in this collection cover a wide variety of...

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Joseph A. Meyer, Jr. (1856–1894) was a graduate of MIT's Department of Architecture who traveled to Europe and Asia on a MIT-sponsored trip in the 1890s. The collection primarily consists of Meyer's travel journals, in which he recorded sketches and impressions of the places he visited.

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The collection comprises course and thesis notes, exams, and correspondence created by Joseph M. Galeota during his educatoin at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1924 to 1927. The materials relate to courses in applied mechanics, physics, and electrical engineering.

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Collection consists of Joseph Gillson's correspondence with other geologists, including Waldemar Lindgren, Charles Palache, and Ulysses Sherman Grant; field notebooks from numerous sites kept by Gillson while with the U.S. Geological Survey, and a field report from Fremont County, Wyoming, with detailed observational data and a record of specimens; and reprints of technical papers, primarily concerning industrial minerals.

Scope and Contents Collection includes correspondence concerning the third edition (1943) of Airplane Structures, and working drafts of the fourth edition (1945), as well as correspondence with Alfred Niles about book revisions. Also included is correspondence with the book's publisher; reports written by Newell for the United States War Department Air Service, Engineering Division in Dayton, Ohio; reports written at MIT; reprints of Newell's articles; notes written in...

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The Joseph Weizenbaum personal archives span the approximate years of 1960 to 1999.

Materials include: theses, publications, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and administrative files.

The only known born-digital material (non-printouts) are files from a 5.25 inch floppy disk in box 16. It is a Pascal computer program, SONIA, written by Thomas Broome III and sent to Weizenbaum. It includes DOS executable files and Pascal source code in plain text.

Scope and Contents This collection contains a notebook created by Josiah Vincent Meigs, including sketches and notes related to various of his inventions including sketches of cartridges and guns produced by the United States Cartridge Company in Lowell, Massachusetts; and sketches of railway chairs and couplings later used as part of the Meigs Elevated Railway (built in the 1880s). The notes and sketches are dated from 1854 to 1866. Josiah Meigs grew up in Tennessee, was an appretice to his brother James, an...

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The bulk of the collection consists of notes, syllabi, and other teaching materials for courses taught by Thomson in a wide spectrum of philosophical disciplines, including ethics, epistemology, history of philosophy, and theory of knowledge. Also included in the collection are articles and book reviews written by Thomson between 1957 and 1998. Abortion, causality, rights, and self-defense are among the many topics covered.

Abstract Judith Wechsler is a curator, film maker, and art historian. Wechsler was a fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1977-1978. She was also an associate professor at the MIT Department of Architecture. She is professor emerita at Tufts University, and has been professor of art history at the Rhode Island School of Design. As an art historian, she has focused primarily on 19th century French art, exploring the intersection of art and theater, art and film, caricature and...

Abstract This collection documents the career of Dr. Judy L. Hoyt. Hoyt is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) since 2004, and joined the MIT faculty in 2000. Dr. Hoyt is known for her groundbreaking work with strained silicon semiconductor materials, greatly decreasing the size of integrated circuits. She served as an Associate Director within the Microsystems Technology Laboratories...

Abstract These papers document the career of Jule G. Charney, whose research focused on the mathematical description of large-scale atmospheric circulations and included work on the theory of ocean currents, atmospheric wave propagation, large-scale hydrodynamic instability, hurricanes, drought, and atmospheric blocking ridges. The papers document his scientific, academic, professional, and political activities, dating from 1936 to 1981. Part of his career was spent at the Massachusetts Institute of...

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The collection includes information about Julian Avery's inventions and research, copies of his writings on metallurgy and gravitation.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection documents the activities of Julius Adams Stratton, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The collection is arranged in six series by original file groupings. Series 1 contains biographical and genealogical material about Stratton's family, including correspondence, diaries, and reminiscences by his father about his trip west in the mid-nineteenth century. The subject files, Series 3, document Stratton's professional and government activities...

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The collection comprises a scrapbook created in approximately 1930 by Julius B. Goldberg.

Content Description Entire extant collection of negatives and other photographic materials, and/or prints of the photographic output of Iraqi, Kamil Chadirji (ca. 1897-1968), and his son, the Iraqi born architect Rifat Chadirji (1926-2020). The collection consists of ca. 1500 Kamil Chadirji negatives, and ca. 96,000 negatives of Rifat Chadirji, and a few other photographers images included in Rifat Chadirji's collection. The Rifat Chadirji material, besides that of Kamil Chadirji, is housed in sleeves and...

Abstract The collection documents the Kanpur Indo-American Program, 1962-1972, a consortium effort of nine American educational institutions to assist in the development of an Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. Records include correspondence among the India Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other consortium members; information about the development of academic programs; and administrative records such as committee minutes and reports. Personnel and faculty...

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This collection contains materials including but not limited to correspondence, proposals, reports, papers, data and research notebooks, and memoranda. Topics include Athena, Mother, and Passion software, UN bibliographies, Multiregional Input-Output (MRIO), Multiregional Policy (MRP), Multiregional Policy Impact Simulation Model (MRPIS), South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and multiregional planning.

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Collection consists of Technology, the original score for a male quartet by Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Karl Kennison.

Scope and Contents note This collection consists of an audio recording of speeches and music presented at an Institute wide Convocation at the Massachusetts Institute of Techology (MIT) commemorating former president and former chair of the Karl T. Compton. A memorial service had been held earlier in the year in June, but the convocation was held on October 4, 1954 so that students could participate. Speakers included chair of the facult Martin J. Buerger, Dean of Science George R. Harrison; Provost Julius A....