Carroll L. Wilson (September 21, 1910 – January 12, 1983; aged 72)
was a Professor of Management at the
Sloan School
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and the first Mitsui Professor in Problems of Contemporary Technology at
MIT
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. His career encompassed a number of academic, government, and industrial positions ranging from Assistant to the President of MIT to first General Manager of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
Among Wilson's many accomplishments was the establishment of the MIT African Fellows Program (1960–1967) and the MIT Fellows in Latin America Program (1965–1967), which allowed talented MIT graduates to partner with and assist emerging independent nations by working directly in their governmental agencies.
References
*https://web.archive.org/web/20161017220335/https://gecd.mit.edu/go-abroad/distinguished-fellowships/explore-fellowships/carroll-l-wilson
*http://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/13/obituaries/carroll-l-wilson-science-and-energy-expert.html
*https://mobile.nytimes.com/1950/08/10/archives/wilson-decries-talk-of-aec-shakeup.html
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The Human Radiation Experiments'
*http://archives.aaas.org/golden/doc.php?gold_id=127
*http://archives.aaas.org/golden/doc.php?gold_id=58
''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'' June 1979*https://web.archive.org/web/20011104062737/http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/wilson/legacy.html
*https://web.archive.org/web/20011105203329/http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/wilson/techreview.html
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
1910 births
1983 deaths
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