Julius Adams Stratton

Julius Adams Stratton ( born May 18, 1901 in Seattle, Washington; † July 22, 1994 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American electrical engineer and physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Stratton attended as a boy some time to school in Dresden and Berlin, where his family lived at the time. As a youth he was an avid radio hobbyists and drove for a while as a radio operator on ships to China. He studied at the University of Washington and at MIT, where in 1923 he earned his bachelor 's degree in 1926 and his master's degree in electrical engineering. He then continued his studies at the ETH Zurich, where he received his doctorate in 1928 with Peter Debye. He was then first assistant professor of electrical engineering at MIT, but switched to physics in 1930, 1935 Associate Professor and Professor in 1941. He was 1959-1966 President of MIT, after he was in 1949 the first Provost of MIT, 1951 Vice President and Chancellor in 1956.

During World War II he was involved in the development of LORAN at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, a global radio system for position determination. He initiated the development of the system as a consultant highest government offices and visited for this purpose, Iceland, Greenland and Labrador. He was also a consultant in the use of radar in bombers and landing in Normandy. In 1946 he was awarded for this activity, the Medal of Merit.

1966 to 1971 he was faced with the Ford Foundation. 1967 to 1969 he was chairman of the U.S. National Commission for Oceanography, called the Stratton Commission, which published an influential report (Out Nation and the Sea ). As a result, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency was established. 1956 to 1962 and 1964 to 1967 he was the National Science Board.

Stratton is the author of a widely used textbook at the time of electrodynamics. He was one of the founding members of the National Academy of Engineering.

In 1957 he received the IEEE Medal of Honor and 1961, the Faraday Medal ( IEE). In 1950 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society and IEEE Fellow. He was married and had three daughters.

Writings

  • Electromagnetic Theory, McGraw Hill 1941
  • Philip Morse, LJ Chu, RA Hutner: Elliptic Cylinder and Spheroidal Wave Functions, 1941
  • Morse, Chu, JDC Little, FJ Corbato: Spheroidal Wave Functions, 1956
  • Science and the Educated Man: Selected Speeches of Julius A. Stratton, MIT Press 1966
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