Word: killian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James R. Killian Jr., retired president of M.I.T.: The five indispensable books are Darwin's Origin of Species, Freeman Dyson's Disturbing the Universe, Ernst Mayr's Growth of Biological Thought, the works of Thomas Huxley, James Watson's Double Helix, René Vallery-Radot's Life of Pasteur, Eric Ashby's Technology and the Academics: An Essay on Universities and the Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams...