Emanuel Piore
Emanuel Ruben Piore (born July 19, 1908 in Vilnius , † May 9, 2000 in New York City ) was a Belarusian-American physicist and research manager.
In 1917 he moved with his family to the United States and became a US citizen in 1924. He studied physics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (Bachelor's degree in 1930, doctorate in 1935) and worked at the RCA in the electronics research laboratory until 1942, during World War II with the US Navy, where he was first civilian head of the Office of 1947/48 Naval Research was, and was 1948/49 head of the laboratory for electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1949 he was again at the Office of Naval Research as deputy head for natural scientists and senior scientist. In 1955/56 he was Vice President and Head of Research at Avco Manufacturing Corporation. In 1956 he became the first research director at IBM . In 1957 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1963 to the National Academy of Sciences and 1967 to the American Philosophical Society . He became Vice President and Group Executive in 1963 and a senior scientist at IBM in 1965 and was on the Board of Directors from 1962 to 1973.
Under his direction, the Thomas J. Watson Research Center was built in Yorktown Heights, New York, and he initiated the IBM Fellow Program.
In 1967 he received the IRI Medal . The IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award is named after him.
From 1959 to 1962 he was on the Science Advisory Committee of the US President. The Piore Ridge in Antarctica has been named after him since 1973 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Emanuel R. Piore. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 4, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piore, Emanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piore, Emanuel Ruben (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belarusian-American physicist and research manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilnius |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2000 |
| Place of death | New York City |