Cecil Howard Green | |
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 Cecil Green (mid 1980s) | |
| Born | August 6, 1900 |
| Died | April 11, 2003 (aged 102) |
| Education | 1924, BSEE, MSEE Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia MIT |
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| Spouse | Ida Green |
| Awards | Public Welfare Medal Revelle Medal[1] |
Cecil Howard Green KBE (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist, electrical engineer, and electronics manufacturing executive, who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was a cofounder of Texas Instruments. He and his wife Ida Green were philanthropists who helped found the University of Texas at Dallas, Green College at the University of British Columbia, St. Mark's School of Texas, and Green College at the University of Oxford. They were also major contributors to the Cecil H. Green Library at Stanford University, the Cecil H. & Ida Green Graduate and Professional Center at the Colorado School of Mines, the Cecil H. & Ida Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California San Diego, the Cecil & Ida Green Building for earth sciences at MIT (designed by I.M. Pei), and the Cecil and Ida Green Tower (the headquarters of the international Society of Exploration Geophysicists in Tulsa, OK).[2]
- ^ "The Revelle Medal".
- ^ "Green interested in education, wife shares interest" (PDF). The Tech. October 7, 1964. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 7, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2018.