Samuel Wesley Stratton

Samuel W. Stratton
MIT presidential portrait, 1922
8th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In office January 1, 1923 (1923-01-01) – January 30, 1930 (1930-01-30)
Preceded by	Elihu Thomson (acting)
Succeeded by	Karl Taylor Compton
1st Director of the National Bureau of Standards
In office March 11, 1901 (1901-03-11) – December 31, 1922 (1922-12-31)
President	William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding
Succeeded by	George K. Burgess
Personal details
Born	(1861-07-18)July 18, 1861 Litchfield, Illinois, US
Died	October 18, 1931(1931-10-18) (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. A physicist by training, Stratton proposed the U.S. Bureau of Standards and was appointed its first director by 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.