Short answers, pulled from the story.
Karl Taylor Compton led the consolidation of the MIT School of Science in 1932. This administrative shift brought together scattered scientific efforts into a unified structure.
The Department of Chemistry opened alongside MIT itself in 1865. It remains one of the original academic units still active today.
Wolfgang Ketterle won the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for work on Bose-Einstein condensates. His research contributed directly to the core programs at the Center for Ultracold Atoms.
The Center for Global Change Science formed in January 1990 with a clear mission statement. By July 2006 it became an independent center within the School of Science structure.
Approximately 275 faculty members teach courses across six departments today. The school is the second largest unit at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.