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1
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Identity
of physicist and electrical engineer
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Degree
work in physics
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Difficulty
getting engineering license
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2
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Ownership
of patent to gun-fire control system
Mark 56
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General
Electric plant in Pittsfield, MA
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Physicists
at MIT Rad Lab
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3
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Issue
of hiring physicists to do systems engineering
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Rise
of electrical engineering Ph.D's
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4
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Nature
of physics experimentation, 1930s-40s
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Work
with Arthur Compton on cosmic rays
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5
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Work
with high-frequency pulse circuits
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Physicist
who as EE's
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Building
350 million volt synchrotron at MIT
after war
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6
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Functioning
as engineer at Radiation Lab and afterwards
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Head
of fire control division at
Radiation Lab
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7
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Systems
design for fire control
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Automatic
radar tracking of aircraft for Dubridge
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8
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Signal
Corps Radio Number 584
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Joined
IRE in 1946
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Professor
of engineering in 1946
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IRE Proceedings
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9
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Kept
up with radio frequency field
through Proceedings
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Pioneer
Award from IEEE Aerospace &
Electronics Society
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MTT
Society in IEEE/IRE
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Chairman
of DOD Radar Panel
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Lack
of technical support in Air Force
after World War II; dependence
on Army Signal Corps
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10
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Assistant
for Development Planning at Pentagon
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Establishment
of Lincoln Laboratory
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Resigned
from MIT and went to work at Raytheon
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IRE
fellow in 1954
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1963 merger
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11
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IEEE activities
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Space race
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1960
president of Aerospace Corporation
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12
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Aerospace Corporation
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Mercury
and Gemini astronauts
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1970
reduction in expenditures for NASA
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13
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DOD
space expenditures
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Job
opportunities for electrical
engineers in the early 1970s
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Minuteman
III missiles; slowdown
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14
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Slowdown
in bomber field
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Cutbacks
in entire aircraft industry in 1970s
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15
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IEEE
as labor union? Irwin Feerst
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1977
asked to run for presidency of IEEE
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Service
on White House Committees, incl.
Vietnam Committee
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Working
engineer as v. research engineer or manager
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16
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DOD
and engineers
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17
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In
Pentagon during Korean War under
General Gordon Servile
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Dialogue
between USAF and aircraft companies
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Electronics business
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18
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Feerst
and "profession"; foreign engineers
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Sanders
as president in 1977
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IEEE
as member society, democracy at work
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19
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IEEE
as decentered organization
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Bureaucracies
of various professional organizations
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20
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Feerst
opposes elite/academic control of IEEE
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Moves
as IEEE president to offset Fierst's propaganda
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21
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IEEE
as, democracy, learned society
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22
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Portable
pensions; fears of unionization
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23
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Congress
limiting DOD spending at Aerospace
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Board
of IEEE: Dick Emberson, Donald Fink, Saunders
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24
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Debate
with Feerst
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25
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Harvard
Society of Fellows; definition of prejudice
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1970s
IEEE policy statement about nuclear energy
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26
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IEEE
to stay out of public policy except
to explain
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27
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Safe
dosage of radio waves
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Raytheon
and radar range/microwave oven
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FCC
and radio frequencies
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28
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Kumar
Patel and public policy (American
Physical Society)
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29
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Presidency
of IEEE
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Roberts'
Rules of Order
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30
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Presidency
of IEEE
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31
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East
Coast bias of IEEE
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Wage
busting; contracts
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32
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Eric
Herz as IEEE general manager
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33
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Eric Herz
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Changing
presidential election
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34
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Les
Hogan as IEEE vice president
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Hogan
and ferrites
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35
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Hogan
opposed "unionization" of IEEE
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36
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IEEE
Foundation set up as 501C3
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37
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IEEE
staff in Piscataway; Emily Surjane,
Dick Emberson
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38
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Founders
Society and New York
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39
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Science
as transnational
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Trip
to India as IEEE president
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British IEE
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40
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IEEE
chapters in Singapore, Australia,
New Zealand
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Internationalization
of IEEE
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Trip
to Japan
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41
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Japan
and IEEE
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Establishment
of History Center
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42
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Standards legislation
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43
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IEEE
and voluntary standards
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Cellular
phones and standards activity
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44
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IEEE
and technology and manpower forecasting
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45
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Committee
on Registration
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No
registration for aeronautical engineers
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46
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Insurance
for insurability
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47
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Professional
opportunities for women
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Accreditation
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48
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Age discrimination
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49
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Patent
rights for engineers
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Raytheon
and patent agreements
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50
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RCA
as patent pool for GE, Westinghouse,
and AT&T
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