Samuel Wesley Stratton
American academic · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1861 to 1931 · aged 70
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.
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In 1923, he moved to Boston to become the eighth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position he held for seven years.
Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1861 to 1931 · aged 70
