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Vannevar Bush (/ v æ ˈ n iː v ɑːr / 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 Bush family is an American political family that has played a prominent role in American politics since the 1950s, foremost as the first family of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and again from 2001 to 2009, during the respective presidencies of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. They also played prominent roles in areas of American ...
Alfred Loomis at Berkeley in 1940. Alfred Lee Loomis (November 4, 1887 – August 11, 1975) was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist, physicist, inventor of the LORAN Long Range Navigation System and a lifelong patron of scientific research.
Edith Linwood Bush (September 15, 1882 – November 3, 1977) was an American mathematician. She was the high school mathematics teacher of her younger brother, Vannevar Bush , before becoming dean of the Jackson College for Women at Tufts University and the first woman to teach engineering at Tufts.
Spencer and his wife, Louise, had three children: John, James, and George. He counted Vannevar Bush, Omar Bradley, William Redington Hewlett and David Packard as friends. Later, he married Lillian Ottenheimer on November 18, 1960. [citation needed]
Vannevar Bush Award (second female recipient), 2009; ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, 2009; Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society, 2008; Oersted Medal, 2007; L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science, 2007; Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment, 2005
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Vannevar Bush Dugald Caleb Jackson (February 13, 1865 – July 1, 1951) was an American electrical engineer . He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power".