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Jerome Bert Wiesner
Jerome Bert Wiesner
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He attenclec3 the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he earned bachelor of science degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics in 1937, the master of science degree in electrical engineering in 193S, and the doctor of philosophy degree in electrical engineering in 1950. fin or out of public positions, he never stopped caring or working for the country's good.
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In that capacity he traveled throughout the South with folklorist Alan Lomax recording the music of the black folk en cl blues tradition. In 1942 he joined the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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He unclerstooct the dewily collateral hazards associated with nuclear weapons production and testing, and an unrestrained nuclear arms race. With persistent persuasive argument he convinced others, in the East en cl West, that the florid must move off this dangerous course.
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He was the recipient of honorary clegrees from premier universities Harvard, Tufts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, en cl Notre Dame among many others. This extraordinary stream of honors, although warmly appreciated by the recipient, never altered his fundamental modesty; the (listinguishecI elder statesman of the 199Os was, in fact, not very different from the junior engineer who arrived at MIT fifty years earlier: still a little shy, but friendly, humorous, and always accessible.
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Acivisor, ~ say to the young. It's the young who need competent friends, boIcl companions, honest men who won't run out, won't write off mankind, sell up the country, quit the venture, jibe the ship.
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