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Vannevar Bush
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American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)
Key facts
- President
- Harry S. Truman
- Preceded by
- Position established
- Succeeded by
- Karl Compton
- Born
- ( 1890-03-11 ) March 11, 1890, Everett, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- June 28, 1974 (1974-06-28) (aged 84), Belmont, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- Tufts University ( BS , MS ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( DEng )
- Awards
- Edison Medal (1943), Hoover Medal (1946), Medal for Merit (1948), IRI Medal (1949), John Fritz Medal (1951), John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (1953), William Procter Prize (1954), National Medal of Science (1963), See below
- Fields
- Electrical engineering
- Institutions
- Tufts University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Thesis
- Oscillating-current circuits; an extension of the theory of generalized angular velocities, with applications to the coupled circuit and the artificial transmission line (1916)
- Doctoral advisor
- Dugald C. Jackson , Arthur E. Kennelly
- Notable students
- Claude Shannon , Frederick Terman , Charles Manneback , Edward L. Bowles , Perry O. Crawford Jr. , Samuel H. Caldwell
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Bush
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Everett
- Place of death
- Belmont
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- IEEE Lamme Medal
- Notable work
- Memex
- Participant in
- Manhattan Project
- Doctoral advisor
- Dugald C. Jackson
- Student of
- Arthur E. Kennelly
- Doctoral student
- Y.H. Ku
- Field of work
- futures studies
- Image
- Vannevar Bush, 1938, Harris & Ewing (cropped).jpg
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- Vannevar Bush
- date of birth
- 1890-03-11
- date of death
- 1974-06-28
- affiliation
- Carnegie Institution for Science
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Vannevar Bush
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- place of burial
- Massachusetts
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- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Vannevar Bush (/væˈniːvɑːr/ van-NEE-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including important developments in radar and the initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. He emphasized the importance of scientific research to national security and economic well-being, and was chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation.
Bush joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1919, and founded the company that became Raytheon in 1922. Bush became vice president of MIT and dean of the MIT School of Engineering in 1932, and president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1938.
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