THE RESEARCH LABORATORY OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

In ordinary times any American scientist would deem it a distinguished honour to be nominated as the Pilgrim Trust lecturer. In these extraordinary times the significance of this lectureship is enhanced by the fact that American and British scientists are working hand in hand, not only to advance science as an important aspect of man’s culture, but now especially as a powerful tool for the preservation of our opportunities for continued life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Consequently, when Sir Henry Tizard transmitted your invitation for me to deliver this lecture I accepted the invitation with profound appreciation and humility. There were also two personal aspects of this invitation which aroused in me a sentimental reaction. The establishment of the Pilgrim Trust lectures was announced to the Royal Society by your late colleague, Sir William Bragg, in his presidential address at the anniversary meeting of the Society in 1937. Not only has Sir William Bragg, together with his distinguished son, been an inspiration to my generation of American physicists, but it happens that he delivered the address at the Graduation Exercises of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the occasion of my inauguration as president of that institution in 1930. I recall very vividly his remarks on that occasion and my feeling that his presence was an inspiration to me at that time when, with considerable trepidation and regret, I moved from the research laboratory into an administrative office.

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Investigations on the purification of Boston sewage, made at the Sanitary Research Laboratory and Sewage Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a history of the sewage- disposal problem

10.3133/wsp185 ◽

1906 ◽

Keyword(s):

Research Laboratory ◽

Massachusetts Institute ◽

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽

Sewage Disposal ◽

Experiment Station ◽

History Of ◽

Institute Of Technology ◽

Disposal Problem

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Notes on the Flow of Scheduled Air Traffic

Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society ◽

10.1017/s036839310010029x ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 58 (523) ◽

pp. 475-484

Author(s):

R. B. Adler ◽

S. J. Fricker

Keyword(s):

Research Laboratory ◽

Air Traffic ◽

Theoretical Studies ◽

Massachusetts Institute ◽

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽

Department Of Commerce ◽

Institute Of Technology

This report presents an abbreviated summary of theoretical studies made by a group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under contract with the Air Navigation Development Board of the Department of Commerce. The details of the analysis and the results have been treated more comprehensively in two technical reports of the Research Laboratory of Electronics.

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