# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-wesley-stratton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:13:36.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-wesley-stratton"
name: "Samuel Wesley Stratton"
slug: "samuel-wesley-stratton"
description: "Samuel Wesley Stratton was an administrator in the American government, physicist, and educator. A physicist by training, Stratton proposed the U.S. Bureau of Standards and was appointed its first director by President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1923, he moved to Boston to become the eighth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position he held for seven years."
tagline: "American academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._S.W._Stratton_LCCN2014715239.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1861-07-18"
deathDate: "1931-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump