Cecil Howard Green
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Cecil Howard Green KBE |
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Cecil Green (mid 1980s)
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August 6, 1900 Whitefield, England |
| Died | April 11, 2003 (aged 102) |
| Education | Electrical engineering |
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University of British Columbia |
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| Notable awards | Public Welfare Medal |
| Spouse | Ida Green |
University of British Columbia
Cecil Howard Green KBE (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was a founder of Texas Instruments. With his wife Ida Green, he was a philanthropist 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 University of California, San Diego, and the Cecil & Ida Green Building for earth sciences at MIT (designed by I.M. Pei).
Born in Whitefield, England, in 1900, Green and his family migrated to Nova Scotia, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and San Francisco, United States, where he witnessed the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where Green attended UBC for two years before transferring to The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning both a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering in 1924.
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