Maurice Ewing Medal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, its highest award. In 1979 Green and his wife were awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. In 1985, Green received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Cecil Howard Green died in 2003 at the age of 102. Philanthropy The growth of TI made Green an enormously wealthy man, and he and Ida quickly set about giving his wealth away. The Greens' philanthropic efforts totalled over $200 million, and most of this money was given to education and medicine. He was given an honorary knighthood in 1991 (at age 91) by Queen Elizabeth II. One gift was the founding of the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green branch of the University of California Systemwide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP). This branch is located at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It was because of Green's gift that Green College, Oxford was founded in 1979. Green College merged with Templeton College in 2008 to become Green Templeton College, on the site of what was previously Green College. Some of Green's philanthropy at the University of British Columbia (UBC) was encouraged by William Carleton Gibson, a neurologist in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Both Gibson and Green referred to Gibson as "Cecil Green's most expensive friend" due to his encouragement to fund the Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professorship and Green College, University of British Columbia. In 1998, the UBC Alumni Association gave Green and Gibson alumni "Lifetime Achievement Awards" in recognition of their support for the University. See also Texas Instruments Cecil H. Green Library Green College, Oxford Green College, University of British Columbia References External links Cecil Green's trips to Arabia, 1939 & 1978 List of Cecil and Ida Green philanthropies Cecil H. Green: An Oral History, Stanford Historical Society, 1989 1900 births 1906 San Francisco earthquake survivors 2003 deaths American manufacturing businesspeople American energy industry businesspeople American centenarians American geophysicists British emigrants to the United States Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Men centenarians MIT School of Engineering alumni People from Whitefield, Greater Manchester University of Texas at Dallas Texas Instruments people Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 20th-century American philanthropists