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Richard C. Maclaurin

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Richard C. MaclaurinRichard C. MaclaurinRichard Cockburn Maclaurin was a Scottish-born mathematical physicist and educator best known for serving as the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1909 until his death in 1920. During his transformative tenure, he successfully orchestrated the historic relocation of the institute from its cramped urban quarters in Boston to its iconic, expansive current campus along the Charles River in Cambridge.

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