Word: lewin
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From his post in England, where he participated in a satellite project. Hoffman was invited in 1975 to work in MIT's Center for Space Research. As MIT scientist Walter Lewin recalls. Hoffman's work there with two astronomical satellites helped lay the groundwork for an important new theory on the source of X- rays in space...
...Lewin, who is 49, said yesterday that Yale's music department has "probably the best theory program in the world," but he might find it appealing to build up a new program...
...Though Lewin and Martino are not chiefly musicologists, both have been active as scholars and writers. Wolff said, explaining that this broad background would help unify that department's two programs...
...Lewin joined the department, it would mark the first time Harvard has offered graduate instruction strictly in theory. Wolff said...
Musical theory has traditionally been taught by composers. "There has been a trend in recent years towards compartmentalizing the discipline and having people called 'theorists' teach it," Lewin said...