Frank Jewett (1919)
Frank Baldwin Jewett (Pasadena, California), September 5, 1879 - Summit (New Jersey), November 18, 1949) was an American physicist and the first president of Bell Labs. biography
Jewett was the son of engineer Stanley P. Jewett and Phebe C. Mead. His father was responsible for the construction of the Los Angeles railway line to Pasadena, Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. As a result, Frank was soon interested in the railways, and he was planning to make a career as well.
In 1898, Jewett graduated from the Throop Institute of Technology (later known as Caltech - California Institute of Technology). He studied physics at the University of Chicago, where he obtained his doctorate degree in 1902. He subsequently accepted an education course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, where he would stay until 1904 when he joined the Mechanical Department of the American Telephone & amp; Telegraph Company (AT & T) in Boston.
In 1907, after his department was merged with Western Electric's design department, he moved to New York, where he became research leader under John Joseph Carty, AT & T's chief engineer. After attending a demonstration of the triode vacuum tube in 1912, Jewett, along with his AT & T team based on this triode, developed a telephone line amplifier that enabled transcontinental telephony.
In 1925, Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs) was established with approximately 3600 employees and with Jewett as chairman - a position that he would retain until 1940. From 1940 to 1944 he was chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bell Labs. Jewett died at the age of 70 in Summit, New Jersey. Recognition
In 1928, he was distinguished by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) with the Edison Medal: "For his contributions to electrical communications". In 1935, he received the Faraday Medal from the British Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), the Franklin Institute, the Franklin Medal (1936) and the John Fritz Medal (1939).
Jewett was president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1939 to 1947 and served the communication section of the National Defense Research Committee in early 1940. Here, among other inspections, he led to the capabilities of industrial research centers throughout the country in preparation for World War II. For his war earnings, he received the Medel for Merit in 1946.
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