Occupants
of Building 20
Many different
members of the MIT community have been located in Building 20. The fact that
the building has been used by research labs, academic offices, classrooms, student
clubs, administrative offices, machine shops, and offices for faculty and graduate
students illustrates the adaptable functionality of Building 20.
- Occupants
of Building 20 in 1953
- Occupants
of Building 20 in 1963
- Occupants
of Building 20 in 1973
- Final
Occupants of Building 20 (1996- 1998)
- Alphabetical list of Nearly All Occupants of Building 20
Occupants of Building 20 in 1953 (from Staff Telephone Directory, compiled by MIT Institute Archives)
- Acoustics Lab (Richard Bolt, director) (20B, 20C, 20F)
- Adhesives Lab
- Air Science Headquarters
- Dynamic Analysis & Control Lab (20D-222 - 20D-224)
- Flight Control Lab (20C-128)
- Guided Missiles Program Office (20C-133)
- Lab for Nuclear Science (20B-119)
- Lab of Lighting Design (part of Architecture Department) (20C-231)
- Office of Naval Research (20E-226)
- Plastics Research Lab (20D-004)
- Radiological Safety Office (20B-234)
- Research Lab of Electronics (20A-20B)
Occupants of Building 20 in 1963 (from Staff Telephone Directory, compiled by MIT Institute Archives)
- Army, Military Science
- Campus Patrol (20C-128)
- Data Processing (20C-220)
- Ice Research Lab (20E-206)
- Industrial Hygiene Lab (20B-245)
- Lab for Nuclear Science, linear accelerator (20D-014)
- MIT Press (20B-120)
- Model Railroad Club (20E-214)
- Occupational Medical Services (20B-238)
- Physics Labs
- Research Corporation (20B-111)
- Research Lab of Electronics
Occupants of Building 20 in 1973 (from Staff Directory, compiled by MIT Institute Archives)
- Atomic Energy Commission, Cambridge Office (20D-224)
- Council for the Arts at MIT (20D-220)
- Dean of School of Humanities & Social Science (20D-204)
- Electromagnetic Compatibility (20B-031)
- Environmental Medical Service (includes Radiation Protection Office) (20B-238)
- Laboratory for Nuclear Science machine shop (20B-018)
- Laboratory Hazards Committee (20B-245)
- Linguistics Department (20C-128)
- MIT-Wellesley Upward Bound Program (20C-006)
- Model Railroad Club (20E-214)
- Physical Plant shipping room (20C-018)
- Research Lab of Electronics machine shop (20A-018)
- Research Lab of Electronics photography (20B-201)
- Research Lab of Electronics publications (20A-122)
- Research Lab of Electronics tool shop (20A-013)
- ROTC: Army, Air Force, and Navy (20E)
- Teaching Intern Program (20C-004)
- UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) (20B-141)
The Final Occupants of Building 20 (list compiled Fall 1996):
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- Anthropology
- Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
- Cambridge Partnership for Public Education
- Center for Materials Research in Anthropology & Ethnology
- Center for Space Research, Gravity & Cosmology
- Concourse
- Council on Primary and Secondary Education, TILT (The Institute for Learning and Teaching)
- Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Sedimentology Lab
- Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Core Analytic Lab
- Environmental Medical Services
- Foreign Languages & Literature, LATH (Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities)
- Foreign Languages & Literature, LLARC (Language Learning And Resource Center)
- Graphic Arts
- Health Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering Center
- Integrated Studies Program
- Laboratory for Nuclear Science
- Linguistics & Philosophy
- MITERS
- MIT Educational Talent Search and Upward Bound
- Model RR Club, Tech (TMRC)
- Music
- Program in Science & Technology for International Security
- Research Lab of Electronics
- ROTC (Army ROTC, Air Force ROTC, Navy ROTC)
- SEVT (Solar Electric Vehicle Team)
- Shipping and receiving room
- Special Community Services (includes MITAC, Quarter Century Club, United Way)
- System Design and Management (moved into the building January 1997)
- Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs (UESA) (includes Counseling and Support, Educational Studies & Research, UROP, Writing Requirement)
- Writing Program
Alphabetical List of Nearly All Occupants of Building 20:
- Acoustics Lab (Richard Bolt, director) [eventually became part of RLE]
- Adhesives Lab
- Air Force Aerospace Studies headquarters [previous name, Air Science and Tactics, now also known as Air Force ROTC (AFROTC)]
- Anthropology
- Army, ROTC, headquarters (AROTC) [previous name, Military Science]
- Athena Language Learning Project
- Atomic Energy Commission, Cambridge Office
- Biotechnology Process Engineering Center (BPEC)
- Cambridge Partnership for Public Education
- Campus Patrol
- Center for Cognitive Science
- Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Core Analytic Lab
- Center for Materials Research in Anthropology & Ethnology (CMRAE)
- Center for Space Research, Gravitation and Cosmology Group
- Center Screen
- Committee on Academic Computation in the 1990s and Beyond
- Committee on the Writing Requirement
- Computation Center
- Concourse
- Council for the Arts at MIT
- Council on Primary and Secondary Education, TILT (The Institute for Learning and Teaching)
- Data Processing
- Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science
- Division for Study and Research in Education
- Dynamic Analysis & Control Lab
- Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Sedimentology Lab
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, labs
- Electrical Engineering, microwave lab
- Electrical Engineering Research Shop
- Electromagnetic Compatibility [previous name, Electromagnetic Lab Compatibility]
- Electronic Research Society, MIT (MITERS)
- Environmental Medical Services (EMS) [previous name, Occupational Medical Services]
- Flight Control Lab
- Foreign Languages & Literature (see: Language Learning And Resource Center)
- Graphic Arts
- Guided Missiles Program Office
- Health Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering Center
- IBM Computing Group
- Ice Research Lab
- Industrial Hygiene Lab (part of Occupational Medical Services, and then part of Environmental Medical Services)
- Information Processing Center)
- Institute Archives, Building 20 Records Project office
- Integrated Studies Program (ISP)
- International Nutrition Policy and Planning Program
- Joint Computing Group
- Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (LATH)
- Laboratory for Nuclear Science
- Laboratory Hazards Committee
- Lab of Lighting Design (part of Architecture Department)
- Language Learning and Research Center (LLARC) [part of Foreign Languages and Literature]
- Linguatrainer Room
- Linguistics
- Linguistics & Philosophy
- Medium Energy Instrumentation Lab
- Meteorology
- Military Science
- MITAC (MIT Activities Committee), [part of Office of Special Community Services]
- MITERS [see: Electronic Research Society, MIT]
- MIT Educational Talent Search
- MIT Press
- Model RR Club, Tech (TMRC)
- Music, classroom
- Music, Piano Lab
- Naval Science, headquarters
- Navy, auditor office
- Navy, Development Contractor
- Neurocomputational Lab
- Numerical Analysis Lab
- Nutritional Biochemistry Labs
- Occupational Medical Services (OMS)
- Office of Naval Research
- Office of Statistical Services
- Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education
- Patent section
- Physical Plant shipping room
- Physics Labs
- Plastics Research Lab
- Project METEOR
- Project S.A.N.D. Systems Analysis Office
- Project STILE
- Program in Science & Technology for International Security
- Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab)
- Radiation Protection Office [part of OMS, then part of EMS, previous name, Radiological Safety Office]
- Research Corporation
- Research Lab of Electronics
- ROTC (Army ROTC, Air Force ROTC, Navy ROTC)
- Science, Technology and Society, Program in
- Secondary Technical Education Project (STEP)
- SEVT (Solar Electric Vehicle Team)
- Shakespeare Electronic Archive Project
- Shipping and receiving room
- Special Community Services (includes MITAC, Quarter Century Club, United Way)
- System Design and Management
- Teaching Intern Program
- Technology and Policy Program, student office
- TILT (The Institute for Learning and Teaching)
- Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs (UESA) (includes Counseling and Support, Educational Studies & Research, UROP, Writing Requirement)
- University Film Studies Center
- Upward Bound
- Urban Action
- UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program)
- Writing Program
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