Julius Adams Stratton

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Julius Adams Stratton
11th President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In office
1959–1966
Preceded byJames Rhyne Killian
Succeeded byHoward Wesley Johnson
1st Chancellor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In office
1956–1959
PresidentJames Rhyne Killian
Succeeded byPaul E. Gray
Personal details
Born(1901-05-18)May 18, 1901
Faraday Medal (1961)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering[3]
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisStreuungskoeffizient von Wasserstoff nach der Wellenmechanik (1928)
Doctoral advisors
Doctoral studentsLan Jen Chu

Julius Adams Stratton (May 18, 1901 – June 22, 1994)[4] was an American electrical engineer, physicist, and university administrator known for his contributions in applied electromagnetism. 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 1926 both in electrical engineering. He then followed graduate studies in Europe and the Technische Hochschule of Zürich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, awarded him the degree of Doctor of Science in 1928.[5]

Professional biography

Stratton was appointed Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Department at MIT after his PhD. In 1930 his appointment was transferred to the Physics Department. He was promoted to Professor in 1941. He was one of the first staff members of the MIT Radiation Laboratory who joined the Laboratory in 1940.[6]

He published the classic book Electromagnetic Theory as part of the McGraw Hill series in Pure and Applied Physics in 1941. Stratton's book was one of the most influential electromagnetic textbooks which had formed an integral part of the graduate electromagnetic educations of both physics and electrical engineering communities since its publication.[7] John David Jackson described Stratton's book as his bible[8] and said that he used Stratton's book to learn advanced electromagnetism.[9] Stratton's book also described by Julian Schwinger as one of the essential electromagnetic textbooks.[10] In 2007 Stratton's book had been reissued by the IEEE as one of its classic reissues in the collection of The IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory.[11] Stratton's book was one of the most requested classic electromagnetic textbook for reissuing in electrical engineering community. According to Donald G. Dudley then series editor of The IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory, over twelve years before reissued publication of textbook in 2007, he had received many requests worldwide to reissue Stratton's book.[7]

Stratton was elected to 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.

In the 1955–1965 he served as member of Board of Trustees,

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 was also a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.[15]

Stratton collected his speeches in a 1966 book titled Science and the Educated Man: Selected Speeches of Julius A. Stratton (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1966), with a foreword by the historian of technology Elting E. Morison who had been on the faculty of MIT as a professor of humanities in the Sloan School of Industrial Management from 1946 to 1966.[16]

MIT's Julius Adams Stratton Student Center at 84

Massachusetts Avenue
is named in his honor.

Publications

Books

Articles

Other books

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Pages 464–470 of the book were written in collaboration with Lan Jen Chu.

References

  1. ^ a b "President Emeritus Julius Adams Stratton dies at 93". MIT News. 29 June 1994. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  2. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1936 and institution=Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  3. ^ a b "Stratton, Julius Adams, 1901-1994". American Institute of Physics. Retrieved January 4, 2024.
  4. ^ "President Emeritus Julius Adams Stratton dies at 93". 29 June 1994.
  5. OCLC 720868304 – via ProQuest
    .
  6. ISSN 0031-9228
    . Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  7. ^
    ISBN 9781119134640
    . Retrieved February 9, 2024.
  8. ISSN 0163-8998
    . Retrieved February 24, 2024.
  9. ISSN 0002-9505
    . Retrieved February 24, 2024.
  10. ISBN 978-0-429-50354-2
    . Retrieved February 24, 2024.
  11. S2CID 40484203
    . Retrieved February 24, 2024.
  12. ^ "Julius Adams Stratton". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  13. ^ "Julius A. Stratton". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  14. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  15. ^ "Founding members of the National Academy of Engineering". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
  16. Honan, William H., "Elting E. Morison, 85, Educator Who Wrote Military Biographies"
    , The New York Times, April 26, 1995

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