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Archival as SubjectPublished as SubjectOliver Ellsworth Buckley
Dates
August 8, 1887 – December 14, 1959
Authorized Form of Name
Buckley, Oliver Ellsworth, 1887-1959
Additional Forms of Names
Buckley, Oliver E.
Biography
Abstract
Oliver Ellsworth Buckley was a leader in the field of submarine telephony and he worked on the development of the loaded transatlantic telephone cable in 1929. Buckley also became president and a director of Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Important Dates
August 8, 1887Birth, Sloan (Iowa).
1909Obtained BS, Grinnell College, Grinnell (Iowa).
1914Obtained PhD in Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca (N.Y.).
1914 – 1925Research Physicist, Western Electric Company, New York (N.Y.).
1917 – 1919Member, Signals Corps, United States Army.
1925 – 1952Research Physicist (1925-1927); Assistant Director of Research (1927-1933); Director of Research (1933-1936); Executive Vice President (1936-1940); President (1940-1951); and Chair, Board of Directors (1951-1952), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).
1937Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1941Member, Advisory Committee on Uranium Research, National Academy of Sciences.
1948 – 1954Member, General Advisory Committee, United States Atomic Energy Commission.
1951 – 1955Member (1951-1955) and Chair (1951-1952), Science Advisory Committee, United States Office of Defense Mobilization.
1954Awarded Edison Medal, American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
December 14, 1959Death, Newark (N.J.).
Occupation
Condensed matter physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Advisors & Collaborators
PhD advisor at Cornell University, "The Hall effect and applied phenomena in silicon."
Colleagues
Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
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.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Conwell, Esther M. (Esther Marley), 1922-2014
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Davisson, Clinton Joseph, 1881-1958
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Dryden, Hugh L. (Hugh Latimer), 1898-1965
Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization Science Advisory Committee.
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994
Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization Science Advisory Committee.
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.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Herring, William Conyers, 1914-
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.
Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1879-1949
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Western Electric Company and Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Kraichnan, Robert H., 1928-2008
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Pearson, Gerald L. (Gerald Leondus)
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Waterman, Alan Tower, 1892-1967
Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization Science Advisory Committee.
Webster, William, -1972
Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization Science Advisory Committee.
Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986
Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization Science Advisory Committee.
Additional
Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-
Kelly, Katherine Milsted
Murphy, Edward Joseph, 1898-
Nix, Foster Cary, 1905-
Ohl, Russell S.
White, Addison Hughson, 1909-
Wooldridge, Dean E.
Institutions
Major Positions
Research Physicist; Assistant Director of Research; Director of Research; Executive Vice President; President; and Chair, Board of Directors.
United States. Army. Signal Corps
Member.
Western Electric Company
Research Physicist.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Received 1954 Edison Medal.
The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize was named after him. It was endowed in 1952 by AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Cornell University. Department of Physics
Obtained PhD (1914).
Grinnell College
Obtained BS (1909).
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member, Advisory Committee on Uranium Research.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Member, General Advisory Committee.
United States. Science Advisory Committee
Member and Chair.
Resources
Archival Resources
Subject
AT&T Archives and History Center records, 1869- present.
AT& T Archives and History Center
AT& T Inc.
5 Reinman Road, Warren, NJ 07060, USA
Edward J. Murphy recollections and anecdotes, 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview Addison Hughson White, 1976 September 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Dean E. Wooldridge, 1976 August 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, 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 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 Katharine Milsted Kelly, 1976 July 2.
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
Published Resources
Subject
Oliver E. Buckley Physics Today obituary.
Oliver Ellsworth Buckley: 1887-1959, Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences