Maurice W. Long

Maurice W. Long (April 20, 1925 – October 14, 2023) was an American electrical engineer, radar engineer, and physicist. He served as director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1968 to 1975. He worked as a part-time radar consultant, principal research engineer at GTRI and adjunct professor of electrical engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University.

Education Long received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1946. He also received a Master of Science in physics and a PhD from Georgia Tech, and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky.

Career Long began his career at the Engineering Experiment Station (now known as the Georgia Tech Research Institute) in 1946 as he completed his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech. In 1970, institute president Arthur Hansen moved to absorb the station entirely into the institute. Long resisted this move, feeling that it would compromise the effectiveness of the station.

Long died on October 14, 2023, aged 98.