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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as SubjectFrank B. Jewett
Dates
September 5, 1879 – November 18, 1949
Authorized Form of Name
Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1879-1949
Additional Forms of Names
Jewett, Frank Baldwin
Biography
Abstract
Frank Baldwin Jewett was President of Bell Laboratories (1925-1940). Other institutional affiliations included Western Electric Company and American Telephone and Telegraph Company. His research interests included the telephone industry and radios.
Important Dates
September 5, 1879Birth, Pasadena (Calif.).
1898Obtained AB, Throop Polytechnic Institute (now California Institute of Technology), Pasadena (Calif.).
1902Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).
1902 – 1904Instructor in Physics and Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
1904 – 1912Transmission Engineer, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York (N.Y.).
1912 – 1925Assistant Chief Engineer (1912-1916); Chief Engineer (1916-1922); and Vice President (1921-1925), Western Electric Company, New York (N.Y.).
1918Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1919 – 1925Vice-Chair, Engineering Foundation.
1923 – 1927Chair, Division of Engineering and Industrial Research, National Research Council.
1925 – 1940Vice President, Development and Research, American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
1925 – 1944President (1925-1940) and Chair, Board of Directors (1940-1944), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).
1933 – 1935Member, United States Science Advisory Board.
1939 – 1947President, National Academy of Sciences.
1940 – 1946Member, National Defense Research Committee, United States Office of Science Research and Development.
November 18, 1949Death, Summit (N.J.).
Occupation
Industrial physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Subjects
Physics -- Industrial applications.
Relationships
People
Family
Jewett, Fannie Frisbie
Wife. Married in 1905.
Jewett, Frank Baldwin, Jr.
Son.
Jewett, Harrison Leach
Son.
Jewett, Pauline
Sister.
Jewett, Phebe Mead
Mother.
Jewett, Stanley P.
Father.
Colleagues
Bode, Hendrik W. (Hendrik Wade), 1905-1982
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Brattain, Walter H. (Walter Houser), 1902-1987
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Buckley, Oliver Ellsworth, 1887-1959
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Coolidge, William David, 1873-1975
Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Cross, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1848-1921
Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Davisson, Clinton Joseph, 1881-1958
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Fisk, James B. (James Brown), 1910-1981
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Ives, Herbert Eugene, 1882-1953
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Western Electric Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Pearson, Gerald L. (Gerald Leondus)
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed in the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Additional
Clark, W. Mansfield (William Mansfield), 1884-1964
Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-
Hoddeson, Lillian
Kerst, Donald William, 1911-1993
MacInnes, Duncan A. (Duncan Arthur), 1885-1965
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
Ohl, Russell S.
Institutions
Major Positions
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Transmission Engineer and Vice President, Development and Research.
President and Chair, Board of Directors.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering
Instructor.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Instructor.
Western Electric Company
Assistant Chief Engineer; Chief Engineer; and Vice President.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Obtained AB (then Throop Polytechnic Institute).
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
President and Member.
National Research Council (U.S.)
Chair.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
Member.
United States. Science Advisory Committee
Member.
University of Chicago. Department of Physics
Obtained PhD (1902).
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Frank Baldwin Jewett papers, 1939-1947.
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20418, USA
Office of Scientific Research and Development [OSRD], 1939-1950 (bulk 1939-1947).
Office of the National Archives
National Archives and Records Administration
8th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20408, USA
Subject
AT&T Archives and History Center records, 1869- present.
AT & T Archives and History Center
5 Reinman Road, Warren, NJ 07060, USA
Donald W. Kerst papers, 1937-1959.
University Archives
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Duncan A. MacInnes papers, 1926-1965.
Rockefeller Archive Center
15 Dayton Ave., Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, NY 10591-1598, USA
Lillian Hoddeson papers, 1904-2001.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
MIT Office of the President records of Karl Taylor Compton and James Rhyne Killian, 1930-1959.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Oral history interview with Gerald Leondus Pearson, 1976 August 23 and 8 April 1980.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Gregory Breit, 1975 December 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with James Brown Fisk, 1976 June 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Karl K. Darrow, 1964 April 2 and 10 June.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Russell S. Ohl, 1976 August 19 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert A. Millikan papers, 1821-1953.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
W. Mansfield Clark papers, 1903-1964.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Published Resources
Subject
"Frank Baldwin Jewett: 1879-1949", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences