5.3: An MIT Dialog (Solution)

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Author: Chris Morse


Each of the lines anagrams to an MIT professor.

If you take the Nth letter of their name, where N is their course
number (of course!), you get the following acrostic.

See that Faradays is the answer

1. Nasser Rabbat (Course 4) - S
2. Stephen Ansolabehere (Course 17) - E
3. Edward Adelson (9) - E
4. Michael Triantafyllou (13) - T
5. Ralph Gakenheimer (Course 11) - H
6. Lallit Anand (2) - A
7. Jefferson Tester (10) - T
8.  Fred Moavenzadeh (Course 1) - F
9.  David Bartel (Course 7) - A
10. Elizabeth Eccher (15) - R
11. Harry Asada (Course 2) - A 
12. John Deutch (5) - D - 
13. Anthony Wagner (Course 9) - A
14. Richard Yamamoto (8) - Y
15. Thomas Weiss (Course 6) - S
16.  Nicholas Patrikalakis (Course 13)  - I
17. Rudiger Dornbusch (course 14) - S
18. Washington Taylor (8) - T
19. Jonathan Allen (6) - H
20.  Reginald Newell (Course 12) - E
21. Barbara Imperiali (5) - A
22.  Alice Amsden (11) - N
23.  Sarah Slaughter (Course 1) - S
24.  Jan Wampler (Course 4) - W
25.  Robert Cohen (Course 10) - E
26.  Christine Ortiz (Course 3) - R

Thus, the answer is FARADAYS