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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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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...
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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...
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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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U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., delivered a 2008 Compton lecture titled, "Forging a Clean Energy Future," Friday, April 25, in Kirsch Auditorium.
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Kennedy commends MIT, decries White House 'pseudo-science' "Truth is taking a beating," Sen. Edward Kennedy warned in a forceful attack on the science policy of the Bush administration today in his delivery of the 2007 Karl Taylor Compto...
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