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Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision

Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision Paperback / softback - 2012

by David Kaiser

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Paperback / softback. New. The evolution of MIT, as seen in a series of crucial decisions over the years.
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  • Title Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision
  • Author David Kaiser
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Date 2012-09-14
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780262518154
  • ISBN 9780262518154 / 0262518155
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 7.03 x 0.44 in (22.83 x 17.86 x 1.12 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
  • Dewey Decimal Code 378.744

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About the author

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Department Head of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (MIT Press).

Merritt Roe Smith is Cutten Professor of the History of Technology at MIT and the author or editor of six books, most recently Inventing America: A History of the United States.

Bruce Sinclair, formerly Melvin Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is a Senior Fellow at the Dibner Institute at MIT. He has served as president of the Society for the History of Technology and received its Da Vinci Medal.

Christophe Lcuyer is Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Universit Pierre et Marie Curie and the author of Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (MIT Press, 2005).

Deborah G. Douglas is Curator of Science and Technology at the MIT Museum. She was the curator and project director for the MIT 150 Exhibition.

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Department Head of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (MIT Press).