Word: mckaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newest University building in Cambridge, the Gordon McKay Laboratory of Applied Science opened for research this fall...
...three-story glass, steel, and concrete structure was built on funds from the bequest of Gordon McKay. An inventor who made great fortunes during the Civil War, McKay left the University 15 million dollars in 1906 with the stipulation that it was to go to furthering the progress of applied science...
This dispute went unresolved until 1950, when a committee of distinguished U. S. scientists, appointed by President Conant, decided that McKay had intended that his bequest go toward the engineering sciences. He had expressed an especial interest in mechanical engineering...
Officials of the Division of Applied Science predict that some of the space in McKay will go unused for some time. The Division is slowly building up its mechanical engineering faculty, and the new men will bring new research projects with them when they come to the University.Lower right: Three graduate students in the electromagnetic radiation section take data from oscilloscopes and record it in project notebooks. They are, left to right, JOHN M. OSEPCHUK '48, DONALD B. BRICK '50, and CLINTON G. SHAFER...
Bruce Chalmers, the new Gordon McKay professor of Metallurgy, will give three graduate courses in Physical Metallurgy and one in X-Ray Metallography...