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...polite gesture. M.I.T. began in 1861 as a land-grant professional school for engineers. When Seattle-born "J" Stratton took his electrical engineering degree there in 1923, its aims were still basically the same. Last year, under Acting President Stratton-who stepped up from chancellor when President James R. Killian Jr. became President Eisenhower's science adviser-M.I.T. spent an estimated $22 million for operating costs, another $56 million for sponsored research projects. It produces some of the country's ablest pure physicists; it has grown from the nation's main wartime radar laboratory...
...James R. Killian Jr., board chairman, M.I.T., former presidential science adviser.......................................................................................LL.D...
...Sputnik I, the U.S. Government sent out an S O S to U.S. science. Needed was someone to furnish scientific advice to President Eisenhower and to bridge the gap between the scientific and governmental worlds, which had become so interdependent. Top man to answer the call: Dr. James R. Killian Jr., president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was named the President's Special...
Assistant for Science and Technology. Over the next 18 months, able Administrator Killian created a strong liaison between the White House and scientists, kept the President informed of the best scientific thinking, helped chart the course of U.S. space policy. Last week, at 54, fittingly on the very day that the U.S. sent the first living creatures traveling through space and back, Killian resigned to return to his duties at M.I.T. His successor: Russian-born George Bogdan ("K.") Kistiakowsky, 58, brilliant professor of chemistry at Harvard and every inch a scientists' scientist...
...adviser, Scientists' Scientist Kistiakowsky can be expected to take up where James Killian left off. He should be helped by a high sense of mission. Says one of George Kistiakowsky's closest friends: "His first interest is in science, and to give up [lab work] for a while is very hard for him. He does think scientists have a very heavy responsibility to the nation, and I think that's been the overriding fact with...