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Jerome B. Wiesner, the 13th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), recently announced he will retire on June 30, 1980, after eight years in office...
...presidents usually retire at age 65, Robert Byers, director of the MIT News Office, said yesterday. "The fact that President Wiesner is retiring is no news to any of us here at MIT," Byers said...
...statement released yesterday by Jerome B. Wiesner, MIT president, said MIT has offered Levich a visiting faculty appointment. But a spokesman for Wiesner said yesterday MIT has not talked to Levich directly about the appointment. "We don't yet know what his plans are," he said...
...President Jerome B. Wiesner said in a statement last week that the article has prompted the university to "review the status of Thursday as a recognized student activity" and possibly to "revoke...
...international science Olympics; 26 of the 56 physics Nobel laureates in the past 20 years have been Americans, and the U.S. has twice before captured the triple crown by winning the Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry and medicine. But their competitors may start catching up. M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, for one, says that European and Japanese science is "on the upswing, and we should expect to see the balance change in their direction." At the same time, he feels, U.S. science is being hampered by budget squeezes, causing U.S. scientists to waste their intellectual resources looking for handouts. Says...