Cecil Howard Green

Cecil Howard Green

British-born American geophysicist, engineer and electronics executive

Cecil Howard Green (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.2

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Born Aug 6, 1900, died Apr 12, 2003.1

About

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 and Green Earth Sciences 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). Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is named in their honor.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology3

Career

Occupation: entrepreneur, businessperson, philanthropist, electrical engineer, geophysicist.6

  • Date not recordedFounded Texas Instruments4
  • Date not recordedFounded Green College, University of British Columbia5

Personal life

  • BornAug 6, 1900, Whitefield7
  • DiedApr 12, 2003, La Jolla8
  • CitizenshipUnited States9
  • SpouseIda M. Green10 11

Philanthropy

The growth of Texas Instruments made Green a wealthy man, and he and Ida quickly set about giving his wealth away. The Greens' philanthropic efforts totalled over $200 million, and most of this money was given to education and medicine. He was given an honorary knighthood in 1991 (at age 91) by Queen Elizabeth II.

One gift was the founding of the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green branch of the University of California Systemwide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP). This branch is located at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

It was because of Green's gift that Green College, Oxford was founded in 1979. Green College merged with Templeton College in 2008 to become Green Templeton College, on the site of what was previously Green College.

Some of Green's philanthropy at the University of British Columbia (UBC) was encouraged by William Carleton Gibson, a neurologist in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Both Gibson and Green referred to Gibson as "Cecil Green's most expensive friend" due to his encouragement to fund the Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professorship and Green College, University of British Columbia. In 1998, the UBC Alumni Association gave Green and Gibson alumni "Lifetime Achievement Awards" in recognition of their support for the university.

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Awards

  • 1994Waldo E. Smith Award12 16
  • 1979NAS Public Welfare Medal12 15
  • 1978Maurice Ewing Medal12 14
  • 1966Fellow of the American Geophysical Union12 13
  • Date not recordedFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences12
  • Date not recordedKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire12

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