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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 10 | November 13, 2007
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[THE IMPORTANCE OF BASIC RESEARCH IN PHYSICS AND OF MIT]

SPEAKER:
Charles H. Townes
Professor of Physics, The University of California, Berkeley
1964 Nobel Laureate in Physics


[SCIENCE, THE ENDLESS FRONTIER:
 THE CONTINUING RELEVANCE OF VANNEVAR BUSH]

SPEAKER:
Shirley Ann Jackson
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/492/>

[QUOTE]
"Today, 50 years after Sputnik, we need to focus on another great global
challenge: energy security and sustainability. I believe it is the space
race of this century. We're in a race against time, as we were then.
Success requires multiple sector collaboration, as it did then, but it
requires a base rooted in fundamental research with no product in mind."
-- Shirely Ann Jackson


EVENT HOST: Physics Department <http://web.mit.edu/physics/>

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[RENAISSANCE PHYSICISTS]

SPEAKER:
Robert B. Laughlin
Robert M. & Anne Bass Professor of Physics, Stanford University
1998 Nobel Laureate in Physics


[LEARNING FROM MIT]

SPEAKER:
Steven Weinberg
Jack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science and Regental Professor
Director, Theory Research Group, Department of Physics, The University
of Texas, Austin
1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/493/>

[QUOTE]
"Our job is to make sure the concept of reason, the science of reason,
does not perish from the earth."
-- Robert Laughlin


EVENT HOST: Physics Department <http://web.mit.edu/physics/>

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The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT presents

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Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British
Commonwealth

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