James E. Boyd (scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American physicist, mathematician, and academic administrator
Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1906
Place of Birth: Tignall, Georgia, United States
Date of Death: 18-Feb-1998
Profession: physicist, mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About James E. Boyd (scientist)
- James Emory "Jim" Boyd (July 18, 1906 – February 18, 1998) was an American physicist, mathematician, and academic administrator.
- He was director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1957 to 1961, president of West Georgia College (now the University of West Georgia) from 1961 to 1971, and acting president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1971 to 1972.A graduate of the University of Georgia and Duke University, Boyd began in academia as a professor of physics at West Georgia College.
- He then became a professor at Georgia Tech and a prominent researcher at the Engineering Experiment Station, now known as the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
- At the Engineering Experiment Station, Boyd helped spur the organization's mainstay: federally funded electronics research and development.
- Along with fellow Georgia Tech researchers Gerald Rosselot and Glen P.
- Robinson, Boyd was influential in the founding of Scientific Atlanta, where he was a board member for 25 years.
- As director of the Engineering Experiment Station, Boyd focused on the recruitment of talented engineers and an increase in physical space available to the organization, including the establishment of nuclear research at Georgia Tech with a radioisotopes laboratory and the construction of the Frank H.
- Neely Research Reactor. While he was the third president of West Georgia College, Boyd increased faculty, degrees, programs, and both undergraduate and graduate enrollment on the campus.
- Boyd racially integrated the campus in 1963, unprompted by a court order, and oversaw immense construction projects that dramatically expanded the campus to support the increased (and future) enrollment.
- Hired away to serve as the University System of Georgia's Vice Chancellor for Academic Development in 1970, he was almost immediately reassigned to be Georgia Tech's interim president.
- During his tenure at Georgia Tech from 1971 to 1972, Boyd resolved difficult issues in the attempted takeover of the Engineering Experiment Station by previous Georgia Tech president Arthur G.
- Hansen and the poor performance of (and corresponding alumni calls to remove) head football coach Bud Carson.
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