The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has had 19 presidents (17 inaugurated, 2 acting) in its 150-year history, as of 2011.
- 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 (2004–2012)
- L. Rafael Reif (2012–present)
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Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, presidents, institute and/or technology:
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)