Vannevar Bush (/væˈniːvɑːr/ van-NEE-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World...
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National Science Board established the Vannevar Bush Award (/væˈniːvər/ van-NEE-vər) in 1980 to honor Vannevar Bush's unique contributions to public service...
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interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals...
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As We May Think (redirect from As We May Think by Vannevar Bush)
"As We May Think" is a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush which has been described as visionary and influential, anticipating many aspects of information society...
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and OSRD head Vannevar Bush. Narratives about the National Science Foundation prior to the 1970s typically concentrated on Vannevar Bush and his 1945 publication...
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Atlantic Monthly in July 1945 written by Vannevar Bush, titled "As We May Think". Within this article Vannevar urged scientists to work together to help...
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President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice-President (effectively Provost) Vannevar Bush emphasized the importance of pure sciences like physics and chemistry...
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Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), under director Vannevar Bush. The office was empowered to engage in research and large engineering...
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signature—including accidental scratch marks—from a memo that Truman wrote to Vannevar Bush on October 1, 1947". Klass dismissed theories that the documents were...
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Linus Pauling (category Vannevar Bush Award recipients)
1987 Award in Chemical Education, American Chemical Society. 1989 Vannevar Bush Award, National Science Board. 1990 Richard C. Tolman Medal, American...
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chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (under chairman Vannevar Bush) and as a scientific advisor to Major General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan...
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marketing and optimization, has thus largely focused on Google. In 1945, Vannevar Bush described an information retrieval system that would allow a user to...
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Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century is a 1997 non-fiction book written by G. Pascal Zachary, published by The Free Press...
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States joined World War II, Vannevar Bush was president of the Carnegie Institution. Several months prior to June 12, 1940, Bush was instrumental in persuading...
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Foster Boy, Miss Virginia, and The Martini Shot. In 2023 he portrayed Vannevar Bush in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller Oppenheimer. Modine appeared...
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founded in 1922 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Laurence K. Marshall, Vannevar Bush, and Charles G. Smith as the American Appliance Company. Its focus,...
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developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery...
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but with a growing interest in isotope separation. On 12 June 1940, Vannevar Bush, the president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Harry...
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matters to the President of the United States. The first Science Advisor, Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, served...
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responsibility of the scientist" and was the first woman to receive the Vannevar Bush Award, in 1999. In 2007, she was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from...
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Differential analyser (redirect from Bush differential analyzer)
constructed by Harold Locke Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT, 1928–1931, comprising six mechanical integrators. In the same year, Bush described this machine in a...
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of the Internet. Vannevar Bush and J.C.R. Licklider are two contributors that advanced this idea into then current technology. Bush had supported research...
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Defense Research Committee (NDRC) under Vannevar Bush, which absorbs the Uranium Committee. September 6: Bush tells Briggs that the NDRC will provide...
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Waltham from 1941 to 1961 and Lexington from 1961 to 2003. In 1922, Vannevar Bush, scientist and professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering...
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often considered an inspiration for the concept of hypertext. In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called "As We May Think", about...
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almost unlimited access to funding and resources, and was directed by Vannevar Bush, who reported only to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The research...
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team of six assembled in Washington on 12 September 1940. Tizard met Vannevar Bush, the chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, on 31 August...
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Office of Scientific Research and Development under the leadership of Vannevar Bush (OSRD), at it incorporated the NDRC, now under James B. Conant. The...
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Hans Bethe (category Vannevar Bush Award recipients)
Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions...
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brother, Vannevar Bush, before becoming dean of the Jackson College for Women at Tufts University and the first woman to teach engineering at Tufts. Bush was...
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