Samuel Wesley Stratton

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American academic

United States ScientistsLived 1861 to 1931 · aged 70

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Samuel Wesley Stratton was an administrator in the American government, physicist, and educator. S. Bureau of Standards and was appointed its first director by President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Dr. Stratton in the Evening Star, 1901

Stratton in 1905

Stratton at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910

Autochrome by Auguste Léon, 1920

Stratton in 1918

Awards 2

1917NAS Public Welfare Medal

1912Elliott Cresson Medal

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Leona BaumgartnerAlso won NAS Public Welfare Medal Edwin H. ColpittsAlso won Elliott Cresson Medal

Vladimir KarapetoffAlso won Elliott Cresson Medal

Charles V. ChapinAlso won NAS Public Welfare Medal

Neal F. LaneAlso won NAS Public Welfare Medal Robert R. WilliamsAlso won Elliott Cresson Medal

About this person

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.

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