Maxwell Upson

Born in 1876, Upson graduated in 1899 from Cornell with a bachelor's degree in engineering. Upson was elected to the Sphinx Head Society as a senior. Upson's research contributed to the development of prestressed concrete.^[2]

He was awarded the Edward Longstreth Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1940.^[3]

At the bequest of his widow, Upson is the namesake of Upson Hall on the Cornell campus. The building originally cost $1,988,083 and was designed by the architects Perkins and Will of Chicago and was finished in 1958. The building houses the Departments of Computer Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.^[4] A professorship named for him at Princeton Theological Seminary is currently held by Mark Lewis Taylor.