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245 0 0 |a Jerry Wiesner :  |b scientist, statesman, humanist : memories and memoirs /  |c edited by Walter A. Rosenblith. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b MIT Press,  |c 2003. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xxiv, 612 pages) :  |b illustrations 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-556) and index. 
505 0 |a Memories -- Brothers / Walter A. Rosenblith -- Abiding optimist / Louis D. Smullin -- Ace communicator / Alan Lomax -- Scientist, educator, sailor / Robert I. Hulsizer, Jr. -- A view from the White House / Theodore C. Sorensen -- International perspectives / Michael Sela -- A man for all seasons / Eugene B. Skolnikoff -- An enlightenment man / Philip Morrison -- Educator, political leader, much loved friend / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Race, education, and community / Elma Lewis -- The search for Soviet cybernetics / Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr. -- A passion for the arts / Catherine N. Stratton -- Peace became his profession / Carl Kaysen -- Excellence in action / Paul E. Gray -- A lesson in wisdom / Shirley Ann Jackson -- Three glimpses / Robert M. Solow -- A man of courage and integrity / Willard R. Johnson -- Giving women a break when few men did / Carola Eisenberg -- Campaigner for urban justice / Melvin H. King -- The origins of the media lab /Nicholas Negroponte -- Continuing communication / Emma Rothschild -- Commitment to international peace and security / Ruth S. Adams -- A voice of reason / Anthony Lewis -- Coda / Howard W. Johnson -- Jerry in his own words -- Memoirs -- A random walk through the twentieth century -- Remembering the rad lab and RLE -- Los Alamos -- Technological capabilities panel -- Up the ladder to the White House -- Kennedy -- ABM -- Gorbachev's revolution -- Selected speeches and papers -- Convocation speech/MIT, October 15, 1969 -- Science, technology, and the quality of life/Inaugural address as MIT president, October 7, 1971 -- Commencement address/Valedictory address as MIT president, June 2, 1980 -- Communication theory and the learning process/CBS, Westchester, New York, October 23, 1980 -- Disenthralling ourselves/National Academy of sciences, Washington, D.C., April 28, 1984 -- Creating with computing/ Wiesner Building dedication, MIT, October 2, 1985 -- The rise and fall of the President's science advisory committee, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1987 -- Survival, the moral equivalent of the arms race/National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., January 1988 -- A department of development/Cambridge, Mass., May 17, 1988 -- In memory of Andrei Sakharov/American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass., April 27, 1990 -- President Eisenhower's changing search for peace/Moscow, Russia, November 1990 -- The world needs a better security system/Cambridge, Mass., December 1991 -- Lillian/Memorial meeting for Lillian Hellman, ca. 1993 -- Award speech/National Academy of Sciences Public welfare medal, Washington, D.C., April 24, 1993 -- Selected letters and documents. 
600 1 0 |a Wiesner, Jerome B.  |d 1915-1994. 
600 1 4 |a Wiesner, Jerome Bert,  |d 1915- 
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