Photo Gallery

The Norbert Wiener Resource Library has collected several photos from various sources on the internet.

A special thanks to the MIT Museum for their kind permission to use some of the images.

Visitors may view the photo gallery images, and download for use in reports, presentations, etc.

Young Norbert Wiener formal portrait with round glasses and mustache

Norbert Wiener as a young man in graduation cap and gown

Wiener working at his desk reviewing papers in a library

Wiener standing outdoors in overcoat with hands in pockets

Portrait of young Norbert Wiener with beard and round glasses

Wiener holding a cat outside his home, from LIFE magazine

Wiener wearing headphones testing an electronic device at MIT

Close-up of hand operating an early electronic computing device

Wiener seated in an armchair in later years, wearing vest and glasses

Wiener smoking a cigar in portrait, from LIFE magazine

Wiener participating in a brainwave experiment at MIT laboratory

Four pioneers of cybernetics in Paris: W. Ross Ashby, W. McCulloch, Grey Walter, and Norbert Wiener

Wiener and colleague playing chess with an early computing machine

Close-up portrait of Wiener with polka-dot tie and round glasses

Wiener standing before a blackboard covered in mathematical equations

Wiener leaning on his cybernetic robot with wheels and vacuum tubes at MIT

Wiener with cigar examining his cybernetic robot in front of chalkboard equations

Wiener holding cigar seated behind his wheeled cybernetic robot

Wiener teaching students at a chalkboard, writing mathematical diagrams

Wiener playing chess at home with a young woman, from LIFE magazine

Wiener seated at a conference panel beneath a portrait, during a visit to the Soviet Union

Wiener with colleague in front of Mexican medical history murals

Wiener in middle age, close-up portrait with round glasses and goatee

Wiener standing with chalk in hand before a blackboard with diagrams

Wiener lecturing at a chalkboard with equations dated April 1

Wiener gesturing while lecturing in front of mathematical equations

Wiener pointing to equations on a large blackboard during a lecture

Formal portrait of older Wiener with white goatee and dark-rimmed glasses

Wiener in academic procession wearing doctoral cap and gown

Wiener seated in an electronics laboratory surrounded by instruments

Wiener in conversation with a student across a table at MIT

Wiener speaking at a microphone during a lecture or conference

Younger Wiener standing at a chalkboard with mathematical notations

Wiener in later years, half-length portrait wearing three-piece suit

Close-up portrait of Wiener looking upward, wearing heavy-rimmed glasses

All photographs courtesy of the MIT Museum. Available for educational use.

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