Julius Adams Stratton

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Julius Adams Stratton
Born	1901
Died	1994
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Electrical engineering
Notable awards	IEEE Medal of Honor

Julius Adams Stratton (1901 - 1994) was a U.S. educator. He attended the University of Washington for one year, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1923 and a master's degree in EECS (course 6) in 1926. He served as the president of MIT between 1959 and 1966, after serving the university in several lesser posts, notably appointments to provost in 1949, vice president in 1951, and chancellor in 1956. He also served as the chairman of the Ford Foundation between 1964 and 1971.

Stratton was also a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.[1]

MIT's Julius Adams Stratton Student Center at 84 Massachusetts Avenue is named in his honor.

[edit] References

• Johnson, Howard W. (March 1996). "Julius Adams Stratton (18 May 1901-22 June 1994)". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 140 (1): 116-121. 

[edit] External links

• IEEE History Center- IEEE minibio of Julius Stratton
• List of Founding Members of National Academy of Engineering

v • d • e Provosts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Julius Adams Stratton (1949) · Charles Hard Townes (1961) · Jerome Wiesner (1966) · Walter A. Rosenblith (1971) · Francis E. Low (1980) · John M. Deutch (1985) · Mark S. Wrighton (1990) · Joel Moses (1995) · Robert A. Brown (1998) · L. Rafael Reif (2005)

v • d • e Presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology William Rogers (1862) · John Daniel Runkle (1870) · William Rogers (1879) · Francis Walker (1881) · James Crafts (1897) · Henry Pritchett (1900) · Arthur Amos Noyes (1907) · Richard Maclaurin (1909) · Elihu Thomson (1920) · Ernest Nichols (1921) · Elihu Thomson (1922) · Samuel Stratton (1923) · Karl Compton (1930) · James Killian (1948) · Julius Stratton (1959) · Howard Johnson (1966) · Jerome Wiesner (1971) · Paul Gray (1980) · Charles Vest (1990) · Susan Hockfield (2004)

v • d • e IEEE Medal of Honor 1951–1975 Vladimir Zworykin (1951) · William R. G. Baker (1952) · John M. Miller (1953) · William L. Everitt (1954) · Harald T. Friis (1955) · John V. L. Hogan (1956) · Julius Adams Stratton (1957) · Albert Hull (1958) · Emory Leon Chaffee (1959) · Harry Nyquist (1960) · Ernst A. Guillemin (1961) · Edward Victor Appleton (1962) · George C. Southworth (1963) · Harold A. Wheeler (1964) · Claude Elwood Shannon (1966) · Charles H. Townes (1967) · Gordon K. Teal (1968) · Edward Ginzton (1969) · Dennis Gabor (1970) · John Bardeen (1971) · Jay W. Forester (1972) · Rudolf Kompfner (1973) · Rudolf Kalman (1974) · John Robinson Pierce (1975) Complete roster: 1917–1925 · 1926–1950 · 1951–1975 · 1976–2000 · 2001–present