Talk:MIT Radiation Laboratory

This title seems too wordy for me. How about MIT RadLab (if it is in fact most commonly known as that). --mav

Agreed that title Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is too wordy. Also, I do not think that long name is either the official name or the most common name. I have moved the page to Radiation Lab; the capitalization already distinguishes it from being just any "radiation lab". —Lowellian (talk) 11:23, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

"Rad Lab" and "Radiation Laboratory", without the context of MIT, usually mean the one at Berkeley, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. The name definitely needs to be changed.--ragesoss 23:10, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

The last three paragraphs under "Formation" seem to refer to the Berkeley Rad Lab, not the MIT one. They describe how nine of the group working under Lawrence received Nobel prizes. It looks like someone cut and pasted info on the wrong Rad Lab into the article. Delmlsfan (talk) 03:03, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

There's an article about it here in Wikipedia. The text of several volumes of the Series, as I recall, mentions cooperation between the MIT Rad Lab and the TRE. They apparently worked together; it would be nice to include a note about this.

I discovered the Series in high school, and its inspiration became my lifelong profession -- electronics. Regards, 173.48.76.50 (talk) 07:36, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

FYI, the current version of the article now mentions the TRE in the lead, and identifies it as the Rad Lab's organizational precusor. There's a separate article on the British Branch of the Radiation Laboratory discussing the direct connections between the them in 1943–45. I think Brown (1999) is the most balanced account of their respective contributions. Nickknack00 (talk) 17:47, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

The Series is probably part of MIT's online OpenCourseware, and available as PDF download, free of encumbrances. However, so far, I haven't found it at MIT in OpenCourseware, but it can be found at UCSD at <http://cer.ucsd.edu/~james/notes/MIT%20OpenCourseWare/MIT%20Radiation%20Lab/> (A wideband connection is a blessing, here! Figure roughly 30 MB per volume.)

It has been reprinted by Dover {Publications?] in paperback; at least some volumes are probably still available. Regards, Nikevich (talk) 08:06, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

FYI, a full set from the Series is now on Internet Archive. I have moved a fuller discussion and links to MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. Nickknack00 (talk) 17:37, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

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