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MIT MUSEUM
Physicists Edward Bowen (left), Lee DuBridge (centre) and I. I. Rabi work on a cavity magnetron in the 1940s.
Practical, interdisciplinary ways of working forged during the Second World War had
a lasting impact on a generation of physicists and their findings, says David Kaiser.
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Julian Schwinger (standing) with colleagues at MITs Radiation Laboratory during the Second World War.
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Students protest against military research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.
PHILOSOPHY RETURNS
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