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Julius Adams Stratton
Julius Adams Stratton
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With an institute traveling fellowship for study abroad, he enrolled at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and received his doctorate in mathematical physics in 1928. He then returned to MIT as an assistant professor of electrical engineering and proceeded through the ranks to a full professorship in the Department of Physics to which he hacl transferred in 1930.
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Out of this work came a deep understanding of radio systems at all frequencies, but more important was the development of tools drawn from Maxwell's equations for analysis, design, and the implementation of such systems. This fundamental understancling was later to become important to the development of microwave radar cluring WorIcl War IT and for the emergence of microwave radio, wiclely used today in telephone, television, en cl ciata communication.
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Among the activities he supported and encouraged were construction of a linear particle accelerator, development of technologies based on Norbert Wiener's mathematics, fundamental explorations in plasma physics, efforts in modeling neurons and the nervous systems of animals and human beings, analog computation and simulation, and various other subjects truly an interdisciplinary mix at the cutting edge of research. This pattern of interdisciplinary research and collegial cooperation established by Dr.
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He hac] overseen the integration of the humanities, social sciences, en cl management within the context of the institute's central mission in science and technology, and he had encouraged the growth of research and interdisciplinary centers following the general pattern of RLE.
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Stratton served from 1971 to 1973. He was a life trustee of the Boston Museum of Science en cl served on the board of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
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He aided such people personally and through institutional policies. His balance between excellence and compassion for individuals led to the respect and regard in which he was held by all who knew him.
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