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Portrait photograph of John Brazer Babcock. Technology Review, June 1954, p. 409. Original Credit Line: MIT Photo Service.

Original Caption: "To Retire Two members of the Faculty will retire this summer after long service at the Institute. They are John B. Babcock, 3d, '10, Professor of Railway Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, and Gordon B. Wilkes, '11, Professor of Heat Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Babcock will remain at M.I.T. after July 1 as a lecturer in the Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering. Both men are popular with the students and have devoted their professional lives to teaching."