Dirk Struik

Released
Date of birth:30. 09. 1894
Date of death:21. 10. 2000
Age:106† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Massachusetts
Support
Communism
Dirk Struik

Biography

Dirk Jan Struik was a world-renowned MIT mathematician and historian of science indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury in 1951 under a Massachusetts sedition law for conspiring to overthrow the state and federal governments. He was suspended from MIT; the charges were eventually dropped after the Supreme Court's 1956 Nelson decision voided state sedition laws.

Case

Charges: Massachusetts sedition law — conspiring to overthrow the state and federal governments.
Sentence: None — charges dismissed; he was suspended from MIT for years.
Convicted: Indicted 1951; charges dropped after Pennsylvania v. Nelson (1956).

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