Cecil Howard Green

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.

Cecil Howard Green

KBE
Cecil Green (mid 1980s)
Born(1900-08-06)August 6, 1900
Whitefield, England
DiedApril 11, 2003(2003-04-11) (aged 102)
La Jolla, San Diego, California
Education1924, BSEE, MSEE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
MIT
Known for
  • Cofounder of Texas Instruments(1951)
  • Chairman of GSI (1955–1959)
  • President of GSI (1951–1955)
  • Vice president of GSI (1941–1951)
SpouseIda Green
AwardsPublic Welfare Medal
Revelle Medal

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).

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