Editing Julius Adams Stratton (section)

== 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.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Gray | first=P. E. | author-link=Paul E. Gray | title=Julius Adams Stratton [Obituary]| journal=Physics Today | volume=48 | issue=1 | date=1 January 1995 | issn=0031-9228 | doi=10.1063/1.2807887 | pages=67–68 | url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/48/1/67/408254/Julius-Adams-Stratton | access-date=3 January 2024| url-access=subscription }}</ref>

He published the classic book ''Electromagnetic Theory'' as part of the [[McGraw Hill Education|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.<ref name="Dudley" /> [[John David Jackson (physicist)|John David Jackson]] described Stratton's book as his bible<ref>{{cite journal | last=Jackson | first=J. D. | author-link=John David Jackson (physicist) | title=Snapshots of a Physicist's Life | journal=[[Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science]] | volume=49 | issue=1 | date=1999 | issn=0163-8998 | doi=10.1146/annurev.nucl.49.1.1 | pages=1–33 | bibcode=1999ARNPS..49....1J | url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.nucl.49.1.1 |access-date=February 24, 2024| url-access=subscription }}</ref> and said that he used Stratton's book to learn advanced electromagnetism.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Jackson | first=J. D. |author-link=John David Jackson (physicist)| title=Jackson's Electromagnetic Antecedents | journal=[[American Journal of Physics]] | volume=69 | issue=6 | date=2001 | issn=0002-9505 | doi=10.1119/1.1286665 | pages=631 | bibcode=2001AmJPh..69..631J | url=https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/69/6/631/979777/Jackson-s-electromagnetic-antecedents | access-date=February 24, 2024| url-access=subscription }}</ref> Stratton's book also described by [[Julian Schwinger]] as one of the essential electromagnetic textbooks.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Schwinger | first1=J. | author-link=Julian Schwinger | last2=DeRaad | first2=L. L. | last3=Milton | first3=K. A. | last4=Tsai | first4=W. Y. | title=Classical Electrodynamics | publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] | date=2018 | isbn=978-0-429-50354-2 | doi=10.1201/9780429503542 | page=561 | url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9780429503542/classical-electrodynamics-julian-schwinger-lester-deraad-jr-wu-yang-tsai-kimball-milton | access-date=February 24, 2024}}</ref> In 2007 Stratton's book had been reissued by the [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]] as one of its classic reissues in the collection of The IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Dudley | first=D. G. | title=The IEEE Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory | journal=IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine | volume=48 | issue=6 | date=2006 | issn=1558-4143 | doi=10.1109/MAP.2006.323368 | pages=126–127 | s2cid=40484203 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4118002 | access-date=February 24, 2024| url-access=subscription }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Dudley">{{cite book | last=Stratton | first=J. A. | author-link=Julius Adams Stratton | title=Electromagnetic Theory | date=2007 | publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]]-[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]] | isbn=9781119134640 | doi=10.1002/9781119134640 | page=v | url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119134640 | others="Foreword to the Reissued Edition" by D. G. Dudley | access-date= February 9, 2024}}</ref>

Stratton was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1946.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Julius Adams Stratton |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/julius-adams-stratton |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> In the same year he was awarded the [[Medal for Merit]] for his services.<ref name=MoM /> He was elected to the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1950 and the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1956.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Julius A. Stratton |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/50009.html |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Julius+Adams+Stratton&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He served as the [[List of Presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology|president of MIT]] between 1959 and 1966, after serving the university in several lesser posts, notably appointments to [[provost (education)|provost]] in 1949, [[vice president]] in 1951, and [[chancellor (education)|chancellor]] in 1956.

In the 1955–1965 he served as member of Board of Trustees, [[RAND Corporation]].<ref name=API>{{cite web | title=Stratton, Julius Adams, 1901–1994 | website=[[American Institute of Physics]] | url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11604011.html | access-date=January 4, 2024}}</ref> 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 [[List of founding members of the National Academy of Engineering|founding member]] of the [[National Academy of Engineering]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nae.edu/About/leadership/57773.aspx |title=Founding members of the National Academy of Engineering |publisher=[[National Academy of Engineering]] |access-date={{Format date|2012|10|21}}}}</ref>

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.<ref>[[William H. Honan|Honan, William H.]], [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/26/obituaries/elting-e-morison-85-educator-who-wrote-military-biographies.html?pagewanted=1 "Elting E. Morison, 85, Educator Who Wrote Military Biographies"], ''The New York Times'', April 26, 1995</ref>

MIT's Julius Adams Stratton Student Center at 84 [[Massachusetts Avenue (Cambridge)|Massachusetts Avenue]] is named in his honor.