Edward Strong

Edward Strong graduated from Stanford University in 1925, and went on to receive a master's and doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University in 1929 and 1937, respectively.[3]

Edward Strong first joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1932 as a lecturer, before being promoted to full professor in 1947.[3] He founded Berkeley's Department of Sociology and Social Institutions in 1946, and chaired it until 1953.[3] Strong also served for most of this period as an associate dean of the College of Letters and Science.[3] He was appointed a Vice-Chancellor in 1958, and became Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, a role he served between 1961 and 1965.[3] While Strong was Chancellor, he helped contribute to the establishment of Berkeley's Department of Computer Science.[3] He resigned in March 1965, in large part due to his actions during the Free Speech Movement, which was beginning at that time.[3] After his resignation as Chancellor, Strong was appointed to the Mills Professorship of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, where he taught until 1967, when he retired.[3] Besides for his academic work, Strong was once president of the American Philosophical Association, and was the primary founder of the Journal of the History of the Philosophy.[3] He was also instrumental in the construction of the Radiation Laboratory on Charter Hill, which morphed in to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, which later participated in significant research into nuclear weapons.[3]