Francis Amasa Walker was born in Boston, Massachusetts (July 2,1840–January 5, 1897) and was a United States economist and educator. He served as the president of MIT between 1881 and 1897, and helped to design the Stanford University campus. He graduated from Amherst College in 1860, where he studied law. During the Civil War he rose from the rank of sergeant-major to that of brevet brigadier-general of volunteers -- awarded him at the request of General Winfield Scott Hancock. He was particularly adept at analyzing enemy troop strength and their position.He was wounded at the Battle of Chancelorsville, and captured at Ream's Station, where he was sent to Libby Prison. Walker's activities after the war included stints as editor of the Springfield (MA) Republican, chief of the government bureau of statistics, director of both the 9th and 10th Census (1870 & 1880) and as U.S. commissioner of Indian Affairs (1871–72). From 1872 to 1880 he was professor of political economy at Yale, and from 1881 to his death he was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an economist, Walker is especially known for his theories on wages and profits (promulgated in The Wages Question, 1876) and for his advocacy of international bimetallism. Other works by him include Money (1878), Political Economy (1883), Land and Its Rent (1883), and International Bimetallism (1896). Download high resolution version (556x698, 32 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... An economist is an individual who studies, develops, and applies theories and concepts from economics, and writes about economic policy. ... Categories: | ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco in an [1] of Santa Clara County. ...

Presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Barton Rogers (1862–1870, 1879–1881) • John Daniel Runkle (1870–1878) • Francis Amasa Walker (1881–1897) • James Crafts (1897–1900) • Henry Smith Pritchett (1900–1907) • Arthur Amos Noyes (acting 1907–1909) • Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1909–1920) • Elihu Thomson (acting 1920–1921, 1922–1923) • Ernest Fox Nichols (1921–1922) • Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923–1930) • Karl Taylor Compton (1930–1948) • James Rhyne Killian (1948–1959) • Julius Adams Stratton (1959–1966) • Howard Wesley Johnson (1966–1971) • Jerome Wiesner (1971–1980) • Paul Edward Gray (1980–1990) • Charles Marstiller Vest (1990–2004) • Susan Hockfield (2004—)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology. ... MIT Standard Logo Copyright ©2003 MIT. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... William Barton Rogers (1804-1882) is best known for incorporating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1861. ... John Daniel Runkle (1822 - 1902) was a U.S. educator and mathematician. ... James Mason Crafts (March 8, 1839 – 20 June 1917) was an American chemist, most famous for developing the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876. ... Henry Smith Pritchett (April 16, 1857 – August 28, 1939) was a U.S. astronomer and educator. ... Arthur Amos Noyes (1866 – 1936) was a U.S. chemist and educator. ... Richard Cockburn Maclaurin () (1870 - 1920), was a U.S. educator and physicist. ... Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 - March 13, 1937) was an engineer who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, Britain and France. ... Ernest Fox Nichols (June 1, 1869– April 29, 1924) was a U.S. educator and physicist. ... Samuel Wesley Stratton (1861 - 1931) was a U.S. administrator and educator. ... Karl Taylor Compton (1887-1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1930-1948). ... James Rhyne Killian (1904-1988) was the 10th president of MIT from 1948 until 1959. ... Julius Adams Stratton (1901 - 1994) was a U.S. educator. ... Howard Wesley Johnson (born 1922) was a U.S. educator. ... Jerome Wiesner (Jerome Bert Wiesner) (May 30, 1915-October 21, 1994) was an educator, a science advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems. ... Paul Edward Gray (born 1932) was the 14th president of MIT. He is an electrical engineer. ... Charles Chuck Marstiller Vest (born 1941) is a U.S. educator and engineer. ... Susan Hockfield, a molecular neurobiologist, became the first woman President of MIT on December 6, 2004 Susan Hockfield was announced as MIT’s sixteenth president on August 26, 2004. ...

Categories