David S. Saxon
Academic
1920 – 2005
Who was David S. Saxon?
David S. Saxon was an American physicist and educator who served as the President of University of California system as well as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation.
Saxon was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended MIT where he earned a B.S. degree in 1941 and Ph.D. in 1944, both in Physics. He worked in MIT's famed wartime Radiation Laboratory during World War II.
Saxon joined UCLA in 1947, but was dismissed in 1950 with thirty other faculty members because of their objection to signing an oath of loyalty and declaration that they were not Communist Party members. The California Supreme Court later invalidated this requirement and Saxon returned to UCLA in 1952. While at UCLA, Saxon was a dean, vice chancellor, and executive vice chancellor. He served as the president of University of California between 1975 and 1983.
Saxon joined the MIT Corporation in 1977 and held the office of Chairman between 1983 and 1990.
Saxon was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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- Born
- Feb 8, 1920
Saint Paul - Also known as
- David Saxon
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Died
- Dec 8, 2005
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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