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  <dc:title>Letter from Thomas Gold to President Frank H T Rhodes, Day Hall, Campus</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Is sending a proposal for a letter to Kantrowitz, who is to be a Messenger Lecturer

Kantrowitz was a professor at Cornell in Aeronautical Engineering (later called Aerospace) and made great contributions to the technology or re-entry of space vehicles into the atmosphere. This was a major step at the time of the 'missile gap' in the midfifties. He then left Cornell and became a director of AVCO, to run a large research laboratory in Boston, which at the time of writing this letter he is still doing.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>21 April 1978</dc:date>
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