Vannevar Bush
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican electrical engineer and science administrator (1890-1974)
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.
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Bush with the product integraph, predecessor to the differential analyzer (1927)
In 1932, Compton appointed Bush as MIT's Vice President
Bush attending a meeting at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940. From left to right: Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Bush, James B. Conant, Karl T. Compton, and Alfred L. Loomis
Bush chairing the first NDRC meeting (July 2, 1940)
Cut away diagram of the proximity fuze Mark 53
Left to right: Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Major General Leslie Groves and Colonel Franklin Matthias at the Hanford Site in July 1945
Bush conceived the encyclopedia of the future as having a mesh of associative trails running through it, akin to hyperlinks, stored in a memex system.Awards 19
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William S. HammackAlso won Hoover Medal
Benoit MandelbrotAlso won William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
Charles H. TownesAlso won John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
Arno Allan PenziasAlso won IRI Medal
John D. Rockefeller Jr.Also won NAS Public Welfare Medal
Claude ShannonAlso won John Fritz MedalAbout this person
Vannevar Bush 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.
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