Samuel Wesley Stratton

Samuel W. Stratton
Samuel W. Stratton
	Autochrome by Auguste Léon, 1920
8th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	In office; January 1, 1923 – January 30, 1930
Preceded by	Elihu Thomson (acting)
Succeeded by	Karl Taylor Compton
1st Director of the National Bureau of Standards
	In office; March 11, 1901 – December 31, 1922
President	William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft; Woodrow Wilson; Warren G. Harding;
Succeeded by	George K. Burgess
Personal details
Born	July 18, 1861; Litchfield, Illinois, US
Died	October 18, 1931 (aged 70); Boston, Massachusetts, US
Resting place	Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, California
Alma mater	Illinois Industrial University at Urbana
Awards	Elliott Cresson Medal (1912); Public Welfare Medal (1917);
Academic work
Discipline	Physics
Institutions	University of Chicago;

Samuel Wesley Stratton (July 18, 1861 – October 18, 1931) was an administrator in the American government, physicist, and educator.

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