Compton Lecture Series
The Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Series was established in 1957 to honor the late Karl Taylor Compton, who served as president of MIT from 1930 to 1948 and chairman of the Corporation from 1948 to 1954. The purpose of the lectureship is to give the MIT community direct contact with the important ideas of our times and with people who have contributed much to modern thought.
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D.H.S Secretary Janet Napolitano-Co...
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Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP - Compto...
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“The War in Afghanistan: How to End It” Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 3:30pmDavid Miliband (b. 1965) is the former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, in which post he served from June 2007 to Octo...
Dr. Steven Chu, US Secretary of Ene...
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Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and the co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics gave a lecture entitled "The energy problem and the interplay between basic and applied research"on May 12, 2009 at MIT. Cl...
Dr. Steven Chu, US Secretary of Ene...
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Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and the co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics gave a lecture entitled "The energy problem and the interplay between basic and applied research"on May 12, 2009 at MIT. Cli...
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda - C...
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On September 18, 2008, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda delivered a lectureentitled, "Imperative of Science and Technology in Accelerating African andRwandan Development." After the lecture, President Kagame took questions from the audi...
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- Compton Lecture Series (compton.mit.edu/)
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