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Jerome Wiesner

American academic engineer (1915-1994) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 79

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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1994Died21 October 19941993NAS Public Welfare MedalAward1979Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MITAward1977IEEE Founders MedalAward1971Migel MedalAward1962Fellow of the American Geophysical UnionAward1915Born30 May 1915

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NAS Public Welfare Medal1993
Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT1979
IEEE Founders Medal1977
Migel Medal1971
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union1962

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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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United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1915 to 1994 · aged 79