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    Jerome Bert Wiesner (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994) was a professor of electrical engineering, chosen by President John F. Kennedy as chairman of his...
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    of the more humanistically oriented presidents Howard W. Johnson and Jerome Wiesner between 1966 and 1980. MIT's involvement in military science surged...
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    Wiesner building (Building E15) houses the MIT Media Lab and the List Visual Arts Center and is named in honor of former MIT president Jerome Wiesner...
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    information science in the 1980s and 1990s. Stephen Wiesner is the son of Jerome Wiesner and Laya Wiesner. He received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis...
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  • administrator Jerome Vered (born 1958), American television contestant Jerome Wiesner (1915–1994), American science advisor and educator Jerome J. Workman...
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  • late 1920s Günter Wiesner, German judo athlete Jacob Benjamin Wiesner(1763--1842), German mineralogist and engineer. Jerome Wiesner (1915–1994), educator...
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    1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner, and is housed in the Wiesner Building (designed by I. M. Pei), also known as Building...
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  • 24, 1964 – January 20, 1969 President Lyndon B. Johnson Preceded by Jerome Wiesner Succeeded by Lee DuBridge Personal details Born Donald Frederick Hornig...
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    Killian (1948) Julius Adams Stratton (1959) Howard Wesley Johnson (1966) Jerome Wiesner (1971) Paul E. Gray (1980) Charles M. Vest (1990) Susan Hockfield (2004)...
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  • Chemistry faculty webpage". Retrieved 2007-03-26. "President emeritus Jerome Wiesner is dead at 79". October 26, 2004. Retrieved 2007-04-04. Norman F. Ramsey...
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  • Julius Adams Stratton (1959–1966) Howard Wesley Johnson (1966–1971) Jerome Wiesner (1971–1980) Paul Edward Gray (1980–1990) Charles Marstiller Vest (1990–2004)...
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    Includes the administrations of Howard W. Johnson (1966–1971) and Jerome Wiesner (1971–1980) MIT has always been notionally coeducational, admitting...
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    Kennedy's support for America's piloted space program was lukewarm. Jerome Wiesner of MIT, who served as a science advisor to presidents Eisenhower and...
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    Administration, pp. 86, 110; J.Wiesner, 'War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Bigger Bang for the Buck, A; Interview with Jerome Wiesner, [1]', WGBH Media Library...
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    science of the workings of the human mind. In 1951, Wiener convinced Jerome Wiesner to hire some physiologists of the nervous system. A group was established...
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    ambassador), the State Department, the United States Information Agency, and Jerome Wiesner, the PSAC chairman, opposed resuming atmospheric tests. On the side...
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    private funeral service. At a public memorial subsequently held by MIT, Jerome Wiesner declared "No American has had greater influence in the growth of science...
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    Administrator Robert Seamans, and Special Assistant to the President Jerome Wiesner / Nov 1962, minutes 2:58–ff. Nicks, O. W. (June 1985). "ch8". history...
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  • propellant and could be launched in minutes." During a transition briefing, Jerome Wiesner, "a member of Eisenhower's permanent Science Advisory Committee,......
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    press conference on July 11, 1962. President Kennedy's science adviser, Jerome Wiesner, remained firmly opposed to LOR. The proposed Soviet lunar landing plan...
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  • In office 1966–1971 Preceded by Julius Adams Stratton Succeeded by Jerome Wiesner Personal details Born (1922-07-02)July 2, 1922 Chicago, Illinois Died...
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    who had been a strong supporter of the program in the Senate. With Jerome Wiesner, Johnson was given a major role in overseeing the administration's space...
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    critical of certain technologies. A 1980 issue contained an article by Jerome Wiesner attacking the Reagan administration's nuclear defense strategy. The...
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  • dean of the School of Engineering (1970-1971). Under MIT president Jerome Wiesner, Gray served as chancellor (1971-1980). From 1980 to 1990, he served...
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    the ABM topic were attendees of the Reading meeting: George Rathjens, Jerome Wiesner, and Richard N. Goodwin. Immediately after the meeting, they wrote to...
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    him a large entourage that included Lyndon Johnson, McGeorge Bundy, Jerome Wiesner, Harold Brown, Donald Hornig, Glenn Seaborg, Robert Seamans, Harold...
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    Bees to play drums, and Taylor's childhood friend Zachary Wiesner (son of academic Jerome Wiesner) to play bass. After Taylor rejected the notion of naming...
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    New York Jeremy Stone, director, Federation of American Scientists Jerome Wiesner, president, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Samuel M. Lambert...
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    agreement, it was far from smooth sailing. Kennedy's science advisor Jerome Wiesner, who had expressed his opposition to human spaceflight to Kennedy before...
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    Killian (1948) Julius Adams Stratton (1959) Howard Wesley Johnson (1966) Jerome Wiesner (1971) Paul E. Gray (1980) Charles M. Vest (1990) Susan Hockfield (2004)...
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