Cecil Howard Green
Cecil Howard Green BSEE, MSEE Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
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Alma mater | University of British Columbia MIT |
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Spouse | Ida Green |
Awards | Public Welfare Medal Revelle Medal[1] |
Cecil Howard Green
He was a cofounder of
Biography
Born in Whitefield, England, in 1900, Green and his family migrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada and San Francisco, United States, where he witnessed the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where Green attended UBC for two years before transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning both a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering in 1924.[3][4][5]
Green met Ida Flansburgh in 1923 while working on his master's thesis at the General Electric Research Center in Schenectady, New York. They were married for 60 years, until her death in 1986.[6]
In 1941, Green and his partners J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott and H.B. Peacock bought Geophysical Service Incorporated (GSI), primarily a petroleum exploration company.[6] GSI began to manufacture a broader range of electronics equipment and instruments during World War II, including anti-submarine sonar detectors. In 1951 GSI spun off Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) to pursue the manufacture of a broader range of electronics equipment and instruments, while GSI, now as a wholly owned subsidiary of TI, continued to focus solely on oil exploration services.[6]
Green was vice president (1941–1951), president (1951–1955) and chairman of GSI (1955–1959). He was vice president and a director of Texas Instruments and in 1976 was named an honorary director of the company. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1970.[7] In 1978, he was given the inaugural Maurice Ewing Medal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, its highest award. In 1979 Green and his wife were awarded the
Cecil Howard Green died in 2003 at the age of 102.[10]
Philanthropy
The growth of TI made Green an enormously wealthy man, and he and Ida quickly set about giving his wealth away. The Greens' philanthropic efforts totalled over $200 million, and most of this money was given to education and medicine. He was given an
One gift was the founding of the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green branch of the University of California Systemwide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP). This branch is located at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.[11]
It was because of Green's gift that
Some of Green's philanthropy at the
See also
- Cecil H. Green Library
- Green College, Oxford
- Green College, University of British Columbia
References
- ^ "The Revelle Medal".
- ^ "Green interested in education, wife shares interest" (PDF). The Tech. October 7, 1964. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 7, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
- ^ Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (2006-07-12). "History Cecil and Ida Green: Benefactors and philanthropists". IGPP web site. Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
- ^ Texas Instruments. "Founders' Biographies – Cecil H. Green". TI web site. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
- ^ "Philanthropist Cecil Green dies at 102" (Press release). MIT News Office. 2003-04-18. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
- ^ a b c "News Releases". Texas Instruments News Center. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter G" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ "Public Welfare Award". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
- American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ Lewis, Paul (15 April 2003). "Cecil H. Green, 102, Dies; Texas Instruments Founder". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- ^ "Home – Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics". www.igpp.ucsd.edu.
- ^ "Philanthropist, student leader, World Cup medalist to get alumni honours". UBC Reports. University of British Columbia Public Affairs Office. October 1, 1998. p. 8. Archived from the original on May 20, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-23. This issue of UBC Reports is also online in PDF form.
- ^ "Student, business leaders earn alumni awards". UBC Reports. University of British Columbia Public Affairs Office. May 21, 1998. p. 8. Archived from the original on May 20, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-23. This issue of UBC Reports is also online in PDF form.
External links
- Cecil Green's trips to Arabia, 1939 & 1978
- List of Cecil and Ida Green philanthropies
- Cecil H. Green: An Oral History, Stanford Historical Society, 1989