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Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 11 March 1890
- Died
- 28 June 1974
- Place of birth
- Everett
- Place of death
- Belmont
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Vannevar
- Family name
- Bush
- Mother
- Emma Linnwood Bush
- Field of work
- futures studies
- Occupation
- computer scientist, inventor, politician, university teacher, engineer, science administrator, electrical engineer
- Position held
- chairperson, board member
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- National Medal of Science, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Edison Medal, Legion of Honour, John Fritz Medal, William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, National Inventors Hall of Fame, John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, Hoover Medal, Holley Medal, Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute
- affiliation
- Carnegie Institution for Science
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- doctoral advisor
- Dugald C. Jackson
- doctoral student
- Claude Shannon, Frederick Terman, John B. Russell, Jr., Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, Jr., Samuel Hawks Caldwell, Harold Locke Hazen, Charles Lambert Manneback, Y.H. Ku
- educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, Harvard University, Chelsea High School, Tufts University School of Engineering
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- MIT Corporation, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, National Academy of Sciences, Literary Society of Washington
- name in native language
- Vannevar Bush
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- Memex
- participant in
- Manhattan Project
- place of burial
- Massachusetts
- student of
- Arthur E. Kennelly
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