2024 RARE ! Président du conseil dadministration "MIT" Dr David S. Saxon signé à la main TLS daté 1975

Up for auction "UCLA President" David S. Saxon Hand Signed TLS Dated 1975. 

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David S. Saxon (February 8, 1920

– December 8, 2005) was an American physicist and educator who served as the President of University of California system

as well as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology Corporation. Saxon was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He

attended MIT where he earned a B.S. degree in 1941 and Ph.D. in 1944, both in

Physics. He worked in MIT's famed wartime Radiation Laboratory during World War II. Saxon joined UCLA in

1947, but was dismissed in 1950 with thirty other faculty members because of

their objection to signing an oath of loyalty and declaration that they were

not Communist Party members.

The California Supreme Court later

invalidated this requirement and Saxon returned to UCLA in 1952. While at UCLA,

Saxon was a dean, vice chancellor, and executive vice chancellor. He served as

the president of University of California between

1975 and 1983. Saxon joined the MIT Corporation in 1977 and held the office of

Chairman between 1983 and 1990. Saxon was a Fellow of the American

Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical

Society, American Physical Society,

and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Woods-Saxon potential in

nuclear physics is named partly after him. Saxon was married to his wife,

Shirley, for 65 years and had six daughters and six grandchildren.