Julius Adams Stratton Explained

Julius Adams Stratton
Order:11th
President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Term Start:1959
Term End:1966
Predecessor:James Rhyne Killian
Successor:Howard Wesley Johnson
Order1:1st
Title1:Chancellor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Term Start1:1956
Term End1:1959
Successor1:Paul E. Gray
President1:James Rhyne Killian
Birth Date:18 May 1901
Birth Place:Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Death Place:Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Thesis Title:Streuungskoeffizient von Wasserstoff nach der Wellenmechanik
Thesis Url:https://search.proquest.com/docview/301803695/
Known For:Stratton-Chu integral equation

Julius Adams Stratton (May 18, 1901  - June 22, 1994)[3] 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.[4]

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.[5]

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. John David Jackson described Stratton's book as his bible[6] and said that he used Stratton's book to learn advanced electromagnetism.[7] Stratton's book also described by Julian Schwinger as one of the essential electromagnetic textbooks.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10]

Stratton was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1946.[11] In the same year he was awarded the Medal for Merit for his services. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1950 and the American Philosophical Society in 1956.[12] [13] He served as 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, RAND Corporation.[14] He also served as the 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: President Emeritus Julius Adams Stratton dies at 93 . . 29 June 1994 . 3 January 2024.
  2. Web site: APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. (search on year=1936 and institution=Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  3. Web site: President Emeritus Julius Adams Stratton dies at 93. 29 June 1994 .
  4. Streuungskoeffizient von Wasserstoff nach der Wellenmechanik . 1928 . . Ph.D. . Stratton . Julius Adams . . subscription . 720868304 . Scattering coefficient of hydrogen in wave mechanics.
  5. Gray . P. E. . Paul E. Gray . Julius Adams Stratton [Obituary]]. Physics Today . 48 . 1 . 1 January 1995 . 0031-9228 . 10.1063/1.2807887 . 67–68 . 3 January 2024.
  6. Jackson . J. D. . John David Jackson (physicist) . Snapshots of a Physicist's Life . . 49 . 1 . 1999 . 0163-8998 . 10.1146/annurev.nucl.49.1.1 . 1-33 . February 24, 2024.
  7. Jackson . J. D. . John David Jackson (physicist). Jackson's Electromagnetic Antecedents . . 69 . 6 . 2001 . 0002-9505 . 10.1119/1.1286665 . 631 . February 24, 2024.
  8. Book: Schwinger, J. . Julian Schwinger . DeRaad . L. L. . Milton . K. A. . Tsai . W. Y. . Classical Electrodynamics . . 2018 . 978-0-429-50354-2 . 10.1201/9780429503542 . 561 . February 24, 2024.
  9. Dudley . D. G. . The IEEE Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory . IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine . 48 . 6 . 2006 . 1558-4143 . 10.1109/MAP.2006.323368 . 126-127 . 40484203 . February 24, 2024.
  10. Book: Stratton, J. A. . Julius Adams Stratton . Electromagnetic Theory . 2007 . . 9781119134640 . 10.1002/9781119134640 . v . "Foreword to the Reissued Edition" by D. G. Dudley . February 9, 2024.
  11. Web site: Julius Adams Stratton . 2023-01-10 . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . en.
  12. Web site: Julius A. Stratton . 2023-01-10 . www.nasonline.org.
  13. Web site: APS Member History . 2023-01-10 . search.amphilsoc.org.
  14. Web site: Stratton, Julius Adams, 1901-1994 . . January 4, 2024.
  15. Web site: Founding members of the National Academy of Engineering . . .
  16. [William H. Honan|Honan, William H.]
  17. Pages 464–470 of the book were written in collaboration with Lan Jen Chu.

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