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How the Tizard Mission paved the way for research at MIT

posted November 23, 2015 at 6:26 pm

Henry Thomas Tizard (center), British physicist and head of the Tizard Mission, visits with MIT researchers. The 1940 Tizard Mission introduced to the U.S. the newly invented resonant-cavity magnetron and other British radar developments, and helped establish MIT as a major federally funded research university. Photo courtesy of the MIT Museum.

Seventy-five years ago, an international meeting of scientific minds changed forever how MIT and other research institutions develop new technologies. « more »

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