Vannevar Bush

Person · Open Library

Born

11 March 1890

Died

28 June 1974

Works

40

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1992

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Ferroptosis: A Regulated Cell Death Nexus Linking Metabolism, Redox Biology, and Disease

   · 2017 · cited 6,579x

2. Parasitology Meets Ecology on Its Own Terms: Margolis et al. Revisited

   · 1997 · cited 5,904x

3. The AUDIT Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C)<subtitle>An Effective Brief Screening Test for Problem Drinking</subtitle>

   · 1998 · cited 5,334x

4. Cognitive and emotional influences in anterior cingulate cortex

   · 2000 · cited 4,923x

5. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)

   · 2011 · cited 4,201x

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Quotes

• “The pioneer spirit is still vigorous within this nation. Science offers a largely unexplored hinterland for the pioneer who has the tools for his task. The rewards of such exploration both for the Nation and the individual are great. Scientific progress is one essential key to our security as a nation, to our better health, to more jobs, to higher standard of living, and to our cultural progress.”
• “As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.”
• “This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next?”
• “There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers — conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial.”
• “The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present-day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.”
• “Babbage, even with remarkably generous support for his time, could not produce his great arithmetical machine. His idea was sound enough, but construction and maintenance costs were then too heavy. Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza.”

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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

Image

Vannevar Bush, 1938, Harris & Ewing (cropped).jpg

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