Category: From the Vault
Is String Theory Right or is It Just Useful?, Dr. David Tong
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Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics 10th Anniversary Celebration: October 8, 2010 Dr. David Tong 2001-2004 Pappalardo Fellow
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...
11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: Closing
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The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012
MITv “Election ’76” (Nov. 1, 1976)
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The MITv NEWS student-run program on Nov. 1, 1976, features a debate on the imminent national elections chaired by Nancy Lukitsh with guest speakers Jeff Pressman (MIT), Walter Dean Burnham (MIT) and Chris Arterton (...
“Underwater Photography” (1964) — Science Reporter TV Series
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This black and white film features Harold "Doc" Edgerton interviewed by John Fitch about the technology and scientific applications of underwater photography for the "MIT Science Reporter" (National Education Televisi...
“Founders’ Philosophies” (1976) — Julius A. Stratton
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MIT President Emeritus Julius A. Stratton delivers an illuminating talk titled "Founders' Philosophies," as the first in a series of nine presentations by various MIT luminaries for an IAP (Independent Activities Peri...
New Physics Sandwiched Between Two Oxide Insulators, Dr. Karen Michaeli
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The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012 The continuous search for novel electronic and spintronic devices recently came to fruition in the form of oxide interfaces. Combining two bor...
1998 MIT Commencement Exercises — President William Jefferson Clinton
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WIlliam Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, delivers an address as a Guest Speaker at the 1998 MIT Commencement Exercises, held on June 8, 1998.
“Landing on the Moon” (1966) — Science Reporter TV Series
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This 1966 "Science Reporter" television program details the development and construction of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), the only vehicle of the three Apollo spacecraft modules that actually lands on the moon. Pr...
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Dr. Yusuke Nishida
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9th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium May 14, 2010 Universal Physics with Ultracold Atoms Dr. Yusuke Nishida, 2008-11 Fellow (Nuclear & Particle Theory) Physics is said to be universal when resu...
