Jerome Wiesner
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1915 – 1994
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Who was Jerome Wiesner?
Jerome Bert Wiesner was an educator, a Science Advisor to the President for Eisenhower and Kennedy and Johnson, the President of MIT, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems. He was also an outspoken advocate of the exploration of outer space using only unmanned satellites, most notably in his consistent denunciation of Project Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
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- Born
- May 30, 1915
Detroit - Education
- University of Michigan
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thinking Machines Corporation
- Died
- Oct 21, 1994
Watertown
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on July 23, 2013
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