Jerome Wiesner

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American academic engineer (1915-1994)

United States AcademicsLived 1915 to 1994 · aged 79

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Jerome Bert Wiesner was a professor of electrical engineering, chosen by President John F. Kennedy as chairman of his Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

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1993NAS Public Welfare Medal

1979Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

1977IEEE Founders Medal

1971Migel Medal

1962Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

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ChildStephen Wiesner

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Jacob JavitsAlso won Migel Medal

George H. HeilmeierAlso won IEEE Founders Medal Herbert FriedmanAlso won Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

James Rhyne KillianAlso won Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

John W. GardnerAlso won NAS Public Welfare Medal Bob GalvinAlso won IEEE Founders Medal

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Jerome Bert Wiesner was a professor of electrical engineering, chosen by President John F. Kennedy as chairman of his Science Advisory Committee (PSAC). Educated at the University of Michigan, Wiesner was associate director of the university's radio broadcasting service and provided electronic and acoustical assistance to the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. During World War II, he worked on microwave radar development at the MIT Radiation Laboratory. He worked briefly after the war at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, then returned to MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics from 1946 to 1961. After serving as Kennedy's science advisor, he returned to MIT, becoming its president from 1971 to 1980.

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