oral histories (literary works)

Abstract The Physical Science Study Committee, and its subsequent offshoots, Educational Services Incorporated (ESI) and Education Development Center (EDC), sought to achieve a comprehensive change in the teaching of science, particularly physics at its inception, in the secondary school system. The genesis of the original committee was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956 with a project initiated by Jerrold Zacharias, James Killian, and Francis Friedman. The collection consists of...

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The collection contains supporting documents and transcripts of four interviews with Charles Draper conducted as part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Oral History Program, including discussions of the history of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory).

Abstract This collection documents the administrative activities of the Oral History Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which operated from 1975 to 1979 under the direction of Charles Weiner. It contains correspondence, grant proposals, forms and procedural documents, interview transcripts audiotapes and videotapes. The recombinant DNA controversy history project is well documented. Other projects represented include the life histories of prominent women in science and...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains edited transcripts of life history (through 1976/1977) interviews conducted by Shirlee Sherkow of the MIT Oral History Program with nine women scientists and engineers. The interviews explored the women's early home environments, school and research experiences, roles as spouses and parents, and views on problems confronting women scientists and engineers in the workplace. Interviewees were: Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, electrical engineer and...

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection consists of an edited oral history interview transcript of a series of interviews of Dorothy Bowe conducted by Kathy Marquis on May 19 and 31 and June 15, 1988. As a long time staff member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Dorothy Bowe was an observer and active participant in the history of women at MIT. From 1964 until her retirement in 1986, she had responsibilities in the Office of the Dean for Student Affairs. Dorothy Bowe was interviewed by Kathy...

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Collection consists of an audiocassette tape recording of an interview with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate Frank S. MacGregor in which he describes his career in mining and details about mine administration in the United States and Mexico.

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The collection comprises a July 29, 1985 oral history interview with Forrester. Included are both the original audio recording and a transcript of the interview.

Scope and Contents of the Collection In 1964 Eric Hodgins interviewed Bush in preparation for Bush's autobiography, Pieces of the Action (1970). In the 1120-page interview transcript, Bush discussed his family and education at Tufts University; early years at MIT as a member of the Department of Electrical Engineering, his research and patents, including the development of the differential analyzer, and his roles as executive vice president and dean of the School of Engineering; his decision...

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7 separate cassette tapes, interviews with Louis de Guzman, Bernard Feld, Nicholas J. Grant, Benjamin Lax, and Louis Smullin (all December 1997 or January 1998 Harold Enge and Fred Eppling (LNS history) on one cassette David White/MIT Bits November 4, 2004

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In 1986 and 1988, Craig Waddell, a member of the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, conducted a series of interviews with members of the Cambridge Experimental Review Board (CERB) The collection contains transcripts of Waddell's interviews with Sister Mary Lucille Banach, David Baltimore, Jonathan Beckwith, John Brusch, Daniel Hayes, Constance Hughes, Edward Kass, Sheldon Krimsky, David Nathan, Mary Nicoloro, Alwin Pappenheimer, George Wald, and Cornelia Wheeler.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The majority of this collection consists of a series of conversations between William R. Dickson (at retirement in 1998 he was a senior vice president at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and members of the MIT administration done in the period January to July 2005, on the growth of the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the latter half of the 20th century. Transcriptions of the interviews are in the collection and can also be accessed at: ...

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This collection consists of an interview with Margaret Compton, conducted for the MIT Women’s League. Mrs. Compton describes her life as the wife of President Karl Compton, who was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930-1948). It also covers her involvement with the MIT Women’s League from 1931 to 1973, and the history of women at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The Sloan School of Management Oral History Project records contain interviews, including audio and digital transcript copies, created during the Sloan Oral History Project, a special project of the MIT Sloan School of Management during 2010-2015. George Roth was the project director and was an interviewer along with Robert (Bob) McKersie and Alan White. There are also a set of documents, some born-digital, some scanned, submitted by interviewees as background information. The digital...