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Jerry Wiesner, Scientist, Statesman, Humanist: Memories and Memoirs

Jerry Wiesner, Scientist, Statesman, Humanist: Memories and Memoirs

Rosenblith, Judy
Kennedy, Edward M.

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ISBN10: 0262528487
ISBN13: 9780262528481
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Dec 5 2003
Pages: 636
Weight: 2.16
Height: 1.28 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How Jerry Wiesner, presidential science adviser and president of MIT, worked to make a better and safer world, as told by friends and colleagues and in his own autobiographical writings.

The recurring theme in Jerry Wiesner's varied and distinguished career was what Senator Edward M. Kennedy calls in the foreword to this book a passionate involvement to make a better world, and a safer world. His odyssey as a public citizen included work as an acoustician for folklorist Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress, research at MIT's Radiation Lab and at Los Alamos, service as President John F. Kennedy's Special Assistant for Science and Technology, and his years at MIT as professor, dean, provost, and president. At Los Alamos he received what he called a valuable education on issues that were to occupy a large part of my life. The lessons learned informed his later work on nuclear disarmament; he was a pivotal adviser on both the 1963 partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the 1972 ABM Treaty and an early member of the Pugwash group, an organization of scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain. His many accomplishments as president of MIT similarly reflected his conviction that science and technology cannot be separate from society.

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