KARL TAYLOR COMPTON 1881-1954 



The Karl Taylor Compton Lectures honor the memory 

 of the ninth president of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology by bringing to the M.I.T. community some 

 of the great minds of our time who contribute to the inte- 

 gration of scientific, cultural, and philosophical concerns — 

 a synthesis richly achieved by Karl Taylor Compton and 

 shared with colleagues and students during his long leader- 

 ship of the Institute. 



