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Born in Manchester, Britain, Green came to the United States by way of Canada as a child.
He received his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree from MIT in 1923.
On December 6, 1941, Green and 4 others came together to buy a Dallas based company called Geophysical Service Inc., and in 1951, changed its name to Texas Instruments, which is responsible for the production of calculators, pocket transistor radios (which they were the first to produce) and other electronically controlled machines.
Green served as vice president of Texas Instruments from 1941 to 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We, and as president from 1951 to 19551955 is a common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January events January 2 Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. January 19 The Scrabble board game debuts. February events February 8 Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Mal. It is known that Green's philanthropic efforts total over 200 million dollars, and most of this money was given to charitable organizations involving education and medical affairs. He was given an honorary knighthood in 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac (at age 91) by Queen Elizabeth II.