March 4
Scientists, Students, and Society
$63.87
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
19 February 2019
Summary
Scientists debate the role of scientific research in the military-industrial complex and consider the complicity of academic science in American wars.
On March 4, 1969, MIT faculty and students joined together for an extraordinary day of protest. Growing out of the MIT community’s anguish over the Vietnam War and concern over the perceived complicity of academic science with the American war machine, the events of March 4 and the days following were a “positive protest”-a forum not on…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262536653 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026253665X |
| Author: | Jonathan Allen, Gar Alperovitz, Hans Bethe, George Brown |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 19 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 137mm x 203mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Jonathan Allen
Jonathan Allen joined the faculty of MIT in 1968; from 1981 until his death in 2000, he was Director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Kurt Gottfried, a cofounder of the Union of Concerned Scientists, is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Cornell University. He was a Visiting Professor at MIT from 1968 to 1969. Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT and the author of many influential books on linguistics, including Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and The Minimalist Program, both published by the MIT Press.
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