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title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, United States. The School, which consolidated under the leadership of Karl Taylor Compton in 1932, is composed of 6 academic departments who grant <a href="/wiki/Scienti%C3%A6_Baccalaureus" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientiæ Baccalaureus">SB</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scienti%C3%A6_Magister" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientiæ Magister">SM</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor of philosophy">PhD</a> or <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_science" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor of science">ScD</a> degrees; as well as a number of affiliated laboratories and centers. As of 2020<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the Dean of Science is Professor <a href="/wiki/Nergis_Mavalvala" title="Nergis Mavalvala">Nergis Mavalvala</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With approximately 275 faculty members, 1100 graduate students, 700 undergraduate majors, 500 postdocs, and 400 research staff, the School is the second largest at MIT.<sup id="cite_ref-SoS-About_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoS-About-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2019<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, 12 faculty members and 14 alumni of the School have won <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prizes" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prizes">Nobel Prizes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SoS-About_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoS-About-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biology">Biology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/MIT_Department_of_Biology" title="MIT Department of Biology">MIT Department of Biology</a></div> <p>The Department of Biology (Course 7) began as a department of natural history in 1871. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences">Brain and Cognitive Sciences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Brain and Cognitive Sciences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/MIT_Department_of_Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences" title="MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences">Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences</a> (Course 9) began as the Department of Psychology in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-IX_History_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IX_History-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chemistry">Chemistry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Chemistry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Department of Chemistry (Course 5) was one of the original departments when MIT opened in 1865.<sup id="cite_ref-V_History_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-V_History-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Earth,_Atmospheric_and_Planetary_Sciences"><span id="Earth.2C_Atmospheric_and_Planetary_Sciences"></span>Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (Course 12, or EAPS) traces its origins to the establishment of MIT by the <a href="/wiki/Geologist" title="Geologist">geologist</a> and education reformer <a href="/wiki/William_Barton_Rogers" title="William Barton Rogers">William Barton Rogers</a> in 1861. Before distinguishing himself as MIT's founder and first president, Rogers was a professor of <a href="/wiki/Natural_philosophy" title="Natural philosophy">natural philosophy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a>. He also served as State Geologist of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, which explains why <a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">geology</a> courses have been taught at MIT for more than a century. </p><p>In 1983, EAPS was formed through the merger of two MIT departments: the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, which grew out of the first geology courses, and the Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, which had its roots in the <a href="/wiki/Meteorology" title="Meteorology">meteorology</a> courses that first emerged at MIT in 1941. </p><p>Today, EAPS seeks to understand the fundamental workings of natural systems by examining physical, chemical, and biological processes occurring across a vast spectrum of time and space. Its highly integrated research requires direct observation as well as modeling, and the department fosters interdisciplinary ventures that open new avenues of exploration.<sup id="cite_ref-Welcome_to_EAPS_@MIT_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Welcome_to_EAPS_@MIT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mathematics">Mathematics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Mathematics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/MIT_Mathematics_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT Mathematics Department">MIT Mathematics Department</a></div> <p>Department of Mathematics (Course 18) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Physics">Physics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Physics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/MIT_Physics_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT Physics Department">MIT Physics Department</a></div> <p>The Department of Physics (Course 8) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Affiliated_laboratories_and_centers">Affiliated laboratories and centers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Affiliated laboratories and centers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bates_Research_and_Engineering_Center">Bates Research and Engineering Center</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Bates Research and Engineering Center"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Center_for_Cancer_Research">Center for Cancer Research</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Center for Cancer Research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Now merged into the <a href="/wiki/Koch_Institute_for_Integrative_Cancer_Research" title="Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research">Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Center_for_Global_Change_Science">Center for Global Change Science</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Center for Global Change Science"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded in January 1990 to address fundamental questions about climate processes with a multidisciplinary approach. In July 2006, the CGCS became an independent Center in the School of Science. The center's goal is to improve the ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment. </p><p>The CGCS seeks to better understand the natural mechanisms in ocean, atmosphere and land systems that together control the Earth's climate, and to apply improved knowledge to problems of predicting climate changes. The Center utilizes theory, observations, and numerical models to investigate climate phenomena, the linkages among them, and their potential feedbacks in a changing climate. </p><p>The director of the CGCS is Professor <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ron_Prinn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Prinn (page does not exist)">Ron Prinn</a> from MIT. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Center_for_Ultracold_Atoms">Center for Ultracold Atoms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Center for Ultracold Atoms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The MIT–Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (<i>CUA</i>) is a collaborative research laboratory between <a href="/wiki/MIT" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT">MIT</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>. </p><p>The core research program in the CUA consists of four collaborative experimental projects whose goals are to provide new sources of ultracold atoms and quantum gases, and new types of atom-wave devices. These projects will enable new research on topics such as quantum fluids, atom/photon optics, coherence, spectroscopy, ultracold collisions, and quantum devices. In addition, the CUA has a theoretical program centered on themes of quantum optics, many-body physics, wave physics, and atomic structure and interactions. </p><p>The Director of the CUA is <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Ketterle" title="Wolfgang Ketterle">Wolfgang Ketterle</a> (a 2001 Nobel laureate in physics) from MIT.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Earth_Resources_Laboratory_(ERL)"><span id="Earth_Resources_Laboratory_.28ERL.29"></span>Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Experimental_Study_Group">Experimental Study Group</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Experimental Study Group"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Experimental_Study_Group" title="Experimental Study Group">Experimental Study Group</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Francis_Bitter_Magnet_Laboratory">Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Formerly considered the world's premier high-field magnet research center, the Laboratory was merged into the <a href="/wiki/MIT_Plasma_Science_and_Fusion_Center" title="MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center">Plasma Science and Fusion Center</a>, after the <a href="/wiki/National_Science_Board" title="National Science Board">National Science Board</a> decided in 1990 to locate the new National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at <a href="/wiki/Florida_State_University" title="Florida State University">Florida State University</a>. MIT appealed this decision unsuccessfully; at the time, this was the first appeal of an NSB decision.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Laboratory_for_Nuclear_Science">Laboratory for Nuclear Science</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Laboratory for Nuclear Science"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="McGovern_Institute_for_Brain_Research">McGovern Institute for Brain Research</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: McGovern Institute for Brain Research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/McGovern_Institute_for_Brain_Research" title="McGovern Institute for Brain Research">McGovern Institute for Brain Research</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MIT_Kavli_Institute_for_Astrophysics_&_Space_Research"><span id="MIT_Kavli_Institute_for_Astrophysics_.26_Space_Research"></span>MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research</b> (MKI) was founded in 1965 as the <i>Center for Space Research</i>. Today MKI operates as an interdepartmental center, and it supports research in space science and engineering, astronomy, and astrophysics.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Picower_Institute_for_Learning_and_Memory">Picower Institute for Learning and Memory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Picower Institute for Learning and Memory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Picower_Institute_for_Learning_and_Memory" title="Picower Institute for Learning and Memory">Picower Institute for Learning and Memory</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Program_in_Atmospheres,_Oceans,_and_Climate"><span id="Program_in_Atmospheres.2C_Oceans.2C_and_Climate"></span>Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spectroscopy_Laboratory">Spectroscopy Laboratory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_School_of_Science&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Spectroscopy Laboratory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="George_R._Wallace_Jr._Astrophysical_Observatory">George R. 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