Public Service

“The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.”

This list represents only a few of the many MIT persons and groups whose expertise has been put to practical use by the government, the community, and society in general.

• Vannevar Bush
• Karl T. Compton
• Bernard T. Feld
• Paul E. Gray
• Jerome C. Hunsaker
• Howard W. Johnson
• James R. Killian
• Julius A. Stratton
• Charles M. Vest
• Victor F. Weisskopf
• Jerome B. Wiesner

Exhibits:

• At the Pleasure of the President [letters from US Presidents to MIT persons regarding public service]
• John Ripley Freeman and the Panama Canal, 1908
• Ellen Swallow Richards
• Gordon Brown, Jay Forrester and Project Whirlwind
• Harold Edgerton and Nighttime Aerial Reconnaissance in World War II
• Radar Training at MIT, 1941-1945
• Building 20 and the Radiation Laboratory, 1941-1945
• Physical Science Study Committee, 1956
• Sputnik, James R. Killian and the US Response to Soviet Space Science, 1957
• Robert Seamans, C. S. Draper, MIT and Project Apollo, 1961