Editing Samuel Wesley Stratton (section)

{{Short description|American academic administrator (1861–1931)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Samuel W. Stratton
| image               = File:Samuel W Stratton 1922 Harris & Ewing extract.png
| caption             = MIT presidential portrait, 1922
| order               = 8th
| title               = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
| term_start          = {{start date|1923|01|01}}
| term_end            = {{end date|1930|01|30}}
| predecessor         = [[Elihu Thomson]] {{small|(acting)}}
| successor           = [[Karl Taylor Compton]]
| order1              = 1st
| title1              = Director of the [[National Bureau of Standards]]
| term_start1         = {{start date|1901|03|11}}
| term_end1           = {{end date|1922|12|31}}
| president1          = {{ublist|[[William McKinley]]|[[Theodore Roosevelt]]|[[William Howard Taft]]|[[Woodrow Wilson]]|[[Warren G. Harding]]}}
| predecessor1        = 
| successor1          = [[George K. Burgess]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1861|7|18}}
| birth_place         = [[Litchfield, Illinois]], US
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1931|10|18|1861|7|18}}
| death_place         = [[Boston]], Massachusetts, US
| resting_place       = Mountain View Cemetery, [[Altadena, California]]
| alma_mater          = [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|Illinois Industrial University at Urbana]]
| module              = {{Infobox academic | child=yes
  | discipline        = Physics
  | workplaces        = {{ublist|[[University of Chicago]]}}
  | academic_advisors = 
  | doctoral_students = 
  | notable_students  = 
  | known_for         = 
  | influences        = 
  | influenced        = 
  | awards            = {{ublist|[[Elliott Cresson Medal]] (1912)|[[Public Welfare Medal]] (1917)}}
  }}
}}

'''Samuel Wesley Stratton''' (July 18, 1861 – October 18, 1931) was an administrator in the American government, physicist, and educator. A physicist by training, Stratton proposed the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology|U.S. Bureau of Standards]] and was appointed its first director by [[Theodore Roosevelt|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.