to the administration" on September 9, 1971. What became popularly known as "Nixon's enemies list" was discovered to have been expanded to include Wiesner, among twenty other academics. According to an issue of Science reprinted in the Boston Globe and Washington Post, a White House memo discussed a Nixon order to "cut back on MIT's subsidy in view of Wiesner's anti-defense bias". Portrayal Wiesner was portrayed by Al Franken in the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. Awards and honors Wiesner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1953 and the American Philosophical Society in 1969. He was awarded the Delmer S. Fahrney Award in 1980. In 1993 Wiesner was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member. Personal life Wiesner died at his home in Watertown, Massachusetts of heart failure at age 79. His son, Stephen Wiesner, made fundamental discoveries in quantum information theory. Bibliography (selection) Articles Notes Obituary, MIT News Office "Lists of White House 'Enemies' and Memorandums Relating to Those Named", The New York Times, June 28, 1973, p. 38. "Enemies list", The Tech (MIT's student newspaper), September 7, 1973, p. 4. A Random Walk through the Twentieth Century, online hyper-biography of Wiesner from 1995 References External links 1915 births 1994 deaths 20th-century American engineers American electrical engineers Fordson High School alumni Human spaceflight opponents Jewish American scientists MIT School of Engineering faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology provosts MIT Media Lab people Office of Science and Technology Policy officials Presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni 20th-century American Jews Members of the American Philosophical Society 20th-century American academics