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The collection contains biographical material; writings by Zacharias; correspondence concerning research, articles, and collaborations; research notes relating to the study of retrolental fibroplasias and reports summarizing grants supervised by Zacharias. Also included are notes, charts, and graphs summarizing the data she collected during her study about the age of young women at the time of menarche.

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The collection consists of Leonard Park Cohen's student notes for a class he took at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Heat and Thermodynamics (8.50), in 1934.

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The collection comprises reports generated by the Lincoln Laboratory from 1959 to 1962 for the Project Mercury program.

Scope and Contents Lincoln Bloomfield was a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1961 to 1991. Bloomfield first came to MIT in 1957 to direct the U.N. Project at MIT's Center for International Studies. In addition he worked in the U. S. Department of State as well as serving as a consultant for other government, industry, and private groups, dividing his professional life between government service and academia. The materials in his collection...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The Lisa Peattie papers document the professional activities of Lisa Peattie, Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), her contribution to the Ciudad Guayana project sponsored by the government of Venezuela, as well as her social activism and ranges in date from 1949 to 2003. Records include correspondence, memoranda, meeting notes, reports, newspaper clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, conference proceedings, symposium information, curricula, course...

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This collection consists of a photograph photocopy and written materials pertaining to the Department of Biology at MIT.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Lloyd Rodwin from approximately 1950 to 1983.

Materials include: lecture notes, course readings, correspondence, background publications, reports, and conference materials.

The only born-digital content in the collection is the transcript of comments by Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Texas Interfaith Education Fund (TIEF), for the Profession of City Planning Faculty Seminar. It is a Microsoft Word document.

Abstract Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, was a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. The collection includes correspondence, reports, tide tables, cost estimates, drawings, notes, computations, and court records describing Baldwin's design and construction of dry docks for the United States Navy at Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Gosport (Norfolk), Virginia. Project materials date from between 1827 and...

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Lonsdale Green was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) class of 1887. The collection consists of a letter to Harold E. Lobdell, dean of students, dated April 4, 1940, which describes Green's decision to attend MIT's course in architecture in 1883 and Green's correspondence with MIT professor of architecture William Robert Ware concerning the Institute's program.

Abstract This collection documents the career of Lotte Bailyn. Bailyn is the T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For the period 1997-99 she was Chair of the MIT faculty, and during 1995-97 she was the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at Radcliffe's Public Policy Institute. She studies the relationship between managerial practice and employees’ lives. Her research investigates how institutional and organizational processes intersect...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists primarily of correspondence between Lotte Kohler, a trustee of the Hannah Arendt Literary Trust, and Massachusetts Instittue of Technology lecturer Elzbieta Ettinger about Ettinger’s work writing a biography of Hannah Arendt (published in 1994). The letters reflect their discussions relating to that work, the bulk of the letters between 1989 and 1993. Additional correspondence continued through 2000. A small number of photocopies of background material are also...

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The collection documents Louis Smullin's role on the ONR (Office of Naval Research) Advisory Committee on Millimeter Wave Generation and includes correspondence with Charles H. Townes, chair of the committee; memoranda and reports. Also included is a 1939 term paper written for 6.501, an MIT electrical engineering seminar. Boxes 2 through 17 are unprocessed. (There is no box 4 - renumber boxes?)

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The collection documents the professional activities of Louis Bucciarelli from 1966 to 1999. Materials include a notebook, correspondence, draft book chapters, and articles.

Abstract The Louise Chawla research papers on the Growing Up in Cities project collection contains materials documenting the Growing up in Cities (GUIC) international program of UNESCO. The collection is arranged into three series. Series 1, Records and Related Materials, includes notes, reports, proposals, and background information. Series 2, Articles and Publications, contains articles and other writings about the Growing Up in Cities revival project. Series 3, David Driskell files contains...

Abstract The collection documents the career of Lucian W. Pye, a scholar on China and a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1956 until his death in 2008 in the Department of Political Science. He was also a senior member of the MIT Center for International Studies. Correspondence, minutes, speeches, and writings document Pye’s work at MIT and his participation in many organizations concerned with promoting Asian-American cooperation and other foreign policy...

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The collection consists of a sketchbook entitled "Comments by Lucio Costa of Brazil at the MIT Centennial Convocation" about a Charlie Chaplinesque character who invents a machine that transforms individuals and entire societies into healthy, peaceful, and productive citizens. The character cannot accept his public acclaim and commits suicide.

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The collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by Luther K. Yoder containing memorabilia from his undergraduate years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the end of World War I. Included are programs, athletic score cards, dance cards, menus, invitations, and press clippings.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The Lydia G. Weld papers contain mostly correspondence to and from Lydia Weld, who is also addressed by her family nickname, Rose. The bulk of these letters, which span from her time away at school in the 1890s to her retirement in the 1950s, can be found in the folders titled "Letters to and from Aunt Rose." Correspondence in these folders is mostly personal, sent to and by family and friends around the world. Additional personal correspondence is located in other folders, as it...

Abstract This collection documents the career of M. Stanley Livingston, who worked with E. O. Lawrence at the University of California at Berkeley from 1931 to 1934 on the development of the cyclotron. He was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Physics from 1938 until his death in 1986. Livingston was the first director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, built under his supervision by MIT and Harvard. The collection consists of...

Abstract This collection documents the career of Manson Benedict, a leader in the field of nuclear energy. Benedict came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951 as professor of nuclear engineering, serving as first head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering from 1948 to 1971. He worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II and later served in a number of positions on the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The collection includes course materials, speeches and...

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The collection documents the professional activities of Manuel Cerrillo Valdivia from approximately 1950 to 1974. Materials include reports, drawings and diagrams, music scores, correspondence, lectures, notes, and research files.

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This collection consists of an audio recording of the twentieth anniversary of the March 4, 1969 teach-in.

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The collection includes manuals, problems, and notes for electronics courses Marcy Eager taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radar School.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists chiefly of Bullowa’s professional papers, including correspondence with colleagues, grant proposals and reports, programs and notes pertaining to conferences Bullowa attended, speeches, student notes, and drafts of publications. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1960s and 1970s. Aside from student notes, no personal papers have been located in the collection. Some student notes from Bullowa’s days at Columbia are in the collection, as well as a...

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Songs include "A Stein Song" (written by Albert Bullard, class of 1887), "Dear Old MIT" (written by Harold Wonson, class of 1907), "Take Me Back to Tech" (written by Isaac Litchfield, class of 1885), and "Sons of MIT" (written by John B. Wilbur, class of 1926).

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The collection consists of a transcript of an interview by Ellen S. Richards with Margaret Stinson concerning Stinson's administration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) inorganic chemistry laboratory from the opening of the Institute in February 1865 to 1911. Also includes her general reminiscences about MIT faculty, students, and staff, particularly those associated with the MIT course in chemistry.