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Gray, Paul E., 1932-2017

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1932 February 7 - 2017 September 18

Biography

Paul Edward Gray, 1932-2017 , B.S. 1954, S.M. 1955, Sc.D. 1960, in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was an instructor at MIT, 1957-1960, assistant professor, 1960-1964, and associate professor, 1964-1967; he became professor in 1967 and was MIT Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1968-1971. He was associate dean for student affairs, 1965-1967; associate provost, 1969-1970; dean of the School of Engineering, 1970-1971; and chancellor, 1971-1980. He was the fourteenth president of MIT, 1980-1990, and chairman of the MIT Corporation, 1990-1997. After his retirement from the chairmanship, he resumed his teaching and advising activities. Among the programs at MIT that he helped to establish are the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), the Leaders for Manufacturing Program, and the affiliation with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He was chairman of the Task Force on Educational Opportunity, 1968-1973, and encouraged curriculum reforms in the 1980s that strengthened the humanities, social sciences, and biology in the undergraduate curriculum.

His public service includes four years on the White House Science Council and membership on the Council’s Panel on the Health of Universities; he was also vice chairman of the Council on Competiveness. His field of research is semiconductor electronics and circuit theory. He is the author of two basic texts, The Dynamic Behavior of Thermoelectric Devices (1960) and Introduction to Electronics (1967), and co-author of five other books including a major text, Electronic Principles: Physics, Models and Circuits (1969), written with Campbell L. Searle of MIT.

*Prepared by the Institute Archives now part of Distinctive Collections, MIT Libraries (November 1995; updated 2005; updated October 2020)

Occupations

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur T. Ippen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0011
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Arthur T. Ippen papers document his career as professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and his active professional leadership and consulting work. The papers are resources on the topics of engineering education, international education, and water research. They also chronicle the construction and expansion of the MIT Hydrodynamics Laboratory and reflect Ippen's and the Institute's activities in international educational exchange during the 1960s...
Dates: 1925 - 1978
Found in: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Inaugural Committee records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0036
Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists of records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) president inaugural committees since 1900. The records are primarily documents with some photographs and memorabilia. The inaugurations of Henry Pritchett, Richard Maclaurin, Ernest F. Nichols, and Samuel Wesley Stratton are documented in notebooks which contain minutes of committee and subcommittee meetings and copies of inaugural addresses. The inaugurations of James R. Killian, Julius A. Stratton,...
Dates: 1900 - 2005
Found in: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the Chair of the Corporation, records of Paul E. Gray

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0438
Scope and Contents The collection comprises records generated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Office of the Chair of the Corporation during the tenure of Paul E. Gray. Materials are arranged into seven series according to record type: Chronological Files; Fund Raising Records; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Subject Files; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Correspondence with Staff and Faculty; Outside Activities Recrods; Remarks, Speeches, Statements, and Articles; and Itineraries...
Dates: 1977 - 1997
Found in: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President, records of Paul E. Gray

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0180
Series List Series 1 Calendars, Logs, and Chronological Files, 1981-1989 Series 2. MIT Correspondence, 1970-1990 Series 3. MIT Subject Records 1975-1990 Series 4. Outside Activities Records, 1978-1991 Series 5. Speeches and Writings, 1970-1990 Series 6. Development Correspondence, 1970-1990 Scope and Contents note This collection consists of the records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Office of the President,from 1981 to 1990, during...
Dates: 1970 - 1990
Found in: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President, records of Special Assistant to the President and Ombudsperson Mary Rowe

 Collection
Identifier: AC-0232
Abstract

This collection documents the administrative work of Mary Rowe who held the position of Special Assistant to the President and Ombudsperson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Materials, dating from 1960 through 2014, include proposals and history, committee files, correspondence and subject files, teaching materials, speeches and writings relating to her work.

Dates: 1960s–2018
Found in: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the Provost, records of Associate Provost Paul E. Gray

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39080008692672]
Identifier: AC-0055
Abstract This collection contains the records of Associate Provost Paul E. Gray from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Office of the Provost. Paul E. Gray served as associate provost from 1969 to 1971, under Provost Jerome Wiesner. The collection spans from 1968 to 1971 and includes some materials from Gray’s tenure as assistant provost. Records in the collection include correspondence, memoranda, notes, drafts of policy statements, police statements, police reports and court actions,...
Dates: 1968 - 1971
Found in: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections

Paul E. Gray papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-0442
Abstract This collection documents the personal and professional activities of Paul Edward Gray, president emeritus and professor emeritus of MIT. The collection spans from 1953 to 2010, from his time as an undergraduate through his retirement. The bulk of the material in this collection documents Gray’s time as a student and as a member of the MIT faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Included are research notebooks, theses, publications, course notes, speeches, photographs,...
Dates: 1953 - 2017
Found in: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections

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