'Frank B. Jewett' (
Pasadena, CA, 5 September 1879-
Summit, NJ, 18 November 1949) was a
physicist
and the first president of
Bell Labs.
He graduated from the
Throop Institute of Technology (later the
California Institute of Technology) in 1898,
and received the doctoral degree in physics in 1902.
The Bell Telephone Laboratories were established in 1925 with Jewett as president; he stayed until 1940. He also was
chairman of the Board of Directors of Bell Laboratories from 1940 to 1944.
In 1928 the
AIEE awarded him the
Edison Medal "For his contributions to the art of electric communication." Jewett was president of the
National Academy of Sciences from 1939 to 1947. He served on the
National Defense Research Committee.
US Patent
★ , Means for analyzing and synthesizing electric waves, 1925.
Sources
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IEEE History Site Frank B Jewett