Category: From the Vault
Victor Weisskopf & Philip Morrison, “Forty Years after Los Alamos: MIT and the Bomb”
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Professors Victor Weisskopf and Philip Morrison deliver presentations for the 1985 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture series on the theme "Forty Years After Los Alamos: MIT and the Bomb." Moderated by Francis Lowe; April 17...
24th Killian Award Lecture (1996) — Daniel Kleppner, “Views From a Garden of Worldly Delights”
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Dr. Daniel Kleppner, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics and associate professor in the Research Laboratory for Electronics, delivers the 1995-96 James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award lecture entitled "Views From a...
20th Killian Award Lecture (1992) — Noam Chomsky, “Language: The Cognitive Revolutions”
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Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the 20th annual James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award and Lecture, "Language: the Cognitive Revolutions", on April 8, 1992. The Killian Award was established in 1971 to reco...
15th Killian Award Lecture (1987) — Mildred S. Dresselhaus, “Adventures in Carbon Research”
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Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus delivers the first of two talks for James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award, titled "Adventures in Carbon Research", on April 1, 1987. Established in 1971 as a trib...
Gyorgy Kepes Interview (1988)
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Gyorgy Kepes, founder of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), is interviewed at his home in Cambridge, MA, on the occasion of a California Polytechnic show on art and science in December 1988. The intervi...
Scenes from Two Programs about Victor Weisskopf by Glorianna Davenport and Richard Leacock (2002)
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Scenes from two programs about Victor Weisskopf by Glorianna Davenport and Richard Leacock, presented on the occasion of a memorial event in 2002 celebrating his life. The first excerpt is taken from the film "Remembe...
Inauguration of MIT’s 15th President, Dr. Charles M. Vest (1991)
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On May 10, 1991, Dr. Charles M. Vest was inaugurated as the 15th president of MIT during a ceremony in Killian Court. President Vest served the Institute with distinction over the next 14 years, leading MIT through a ...
Inauguration of MIT’s 14th President, Dr. Paul E. Gray (1980)
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A week of celebration accompanied the inauguration of MIT's 14th president, Paul Edward Gray, Sc.D. '60, in September 1980. This video compilation shows the formal as well as playful events surrounding the historic oc...
Iron-based High Temperature Superconductors: How Electrons Pair by Repulsion, Dr. Fa Wang
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The 10th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 13, 2011 Dr. Fa Wang, 2009--2012 Pappalardo Fellow (Hard Condensed Matter Theory) In superconductors, electrons form pairs that can transport electrici...
“Big City 1980” (1961) — MIT Centennial Film
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MIT professor and architectural engineer John E. Burchard '23 accompanies the program host, Garry Moore, as they consider together what the urban future holds: how and where we will live in 1980, twenty years ahead? T...
