Background
STRATTON, Julius was born on May 18, 1901 in Seattle, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Julius and Laura Stratton.
engineer physicist university professor
STRATTON, Julius was born on May 18, 1901 in Seattle, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Julius and Laura Stratton.
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 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), from which he graduated with a bachelor"s degree in 1923 and a master"s degree in electrical engineering (Electrical engineer) in 1926. He then followed graduate studies in Europe and the Technische Hochschule of Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich), Switzerland, awarded him the degree of Doctor of Science in 1927.
He published the classic book "Electromagnetic Theory" as part of the McGraw-Hill series in Pure and Applied Physics in 1941. lieutenant has been re-issued by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He served as the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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.
In 1967, Stratton was seconded to chair a Congressionally established "Commission on Marine Sciences, Engineering and Resources" whose work culminated in a report, "Our Nation and the Sea", published in 1969, that had a major influence on ocean sciences and management in the United States and abroad.
The commission itself became commonly referred to as the Stratton Commission. Stratton collected his speeches in a 1966 book titled Science and the Educated Manitoba: Selected Speeches of Julius A. Stratton (Cambridge, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1966), with a foreword by the historian of technology Elting East. Morison who had been on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a professor of humanities in the Sloan School of Industrial Management from 1946 to 1966.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Julius Adams Stratton Student Center at 84 Massachusetts Avenue is named in his honor.
Defense Science Board 1956-1957, Governor Board National Research Council 1961-1965, National Science Board 1956-1962, 1964-1967, Naval Research Advisory Committee 1954-1959. Corporation, M.l.T.; National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere 1971-1973, American Philosophical Society, North.A.S. Emer. of Corporation, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
1973-1979). National Academy, of Engineering.
Married Catherine Coffman in 1935.