Science -- Social aspects.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the impact of science on modern society and the sociology of science. Works on the role of science in the history and development of civilization are entered under Science and civilization.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Karl Taylor Compton papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0416
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection contains biographical information about Karl T. Compton, physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Materials include correspondence between George Harrison, Julius Stratton, and Margaret Hutchinson Compton about Harrison's biography of Compton. Compton's date books, 1919,1934-1935, 1942-1954, some with detailed entries, and Karl and Margaret Compton's appointment calendars provide some information about the Comptons' daily activities....
Dates:
1906 - 1961
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oral History Program, oral history collection on the recombinant DNA controversy
Collection
Identifier: MC-0100
Abstract
The recombinant DNA oral history project was begun at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, shortly after the Asilomar Conference, an international conference of molecular biologists held in Pacific Grove, California, to assess the risks involved in recombinant DNA research and establish research guidelines. The project, directed by Charles Weiner, professor of history of science and technology at MIT, aimed to document the social impact of the research and the controversy that...
Dates:
1966 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1978
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0363
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Boxes 1 to 3 of the collection contain minutes of the Technology Studies Program’s Steering Committee meetings and correspondence and memoranda about curriculum planning and course offerings. Boxes 4 and 5 are a set of working papers issued by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, covering papers #1-36.
Dates:
1973 - 2002
Victor Frederick Weisskopf papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-0572
Abstract
The collection documents the professional life and career of Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908-2002) from the 1920s through 2002. Educated in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, Weisskopf made contributions to the quantum theory of radiative transitions, the self-energy of electrons, the electrodynamic properties of the vacuum, and the theory of nuclear reactions. In 1943, several years after his move to the United States, Weisskopf was invited to join the Manhattan Project, where he served as...
Dates:
1922 - 2002