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Vannevar Bush

1890 - 1974

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Vannevar Bush ( van-NEE-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including important developments in radar and the initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. He emphasized the importance of scientific research to national security and economic well-being, and was chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation. Bush joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1919, and founded the company that became Raytheon in 1922. Bush became vice president of MIT and dean of the MIT School of Engineering in 1932, and president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vannevar Bush is the 90th most popular engineer (down from 46th in 2019), the 2,414th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,154th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Vannevar Bush ranks 90 out of 389. Before him are Henry Royce, Immanuel Nobel, Harry Nyquist, Nicola Romeo, Jack Swigert, and Charles Rolls. After him are Patrick Head, Karl von Terzaghi, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Robert Stephenson, George Cayley, and Donald Wills Douglas Sr..

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Among people born in 1890, Vannevar Bush ranks 68. Before him are Victor Serge, Walter Krüger, Prince Joachim of Prussia, Zeki Velidi Togan, Elpidio Quirino, and Bechara El Khoury. After him are Seiichi Itō, Andriy Melnyk, Grigory Kulik, Max Immelmann, Sarah Aaronsohn, and Edwin Howard Armstrong. Among people deceased in 1974, Vannevar Bush ranks 53. Before him are André Jolivet, Vasily Shukshin, Franz Jonas, Salvador Puig Antich, Helmuth Koinigg, and Everaldo. After him are Marcel Achard, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Junio Valerio Borghese, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Sexton, and Pietro Germi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vannevar Bush ranks 2,414 out of 20,380. Before him are Sonny Rollins (1930), Loretta Young (1913), Jim Parsons (1973), E. Howard Hunt (1918), Fredric March (1897), and Harold Garfinkel (1917). After him are Mary Anderson (1862), Elijah Muhammad (1897), Pinetop Perkins (1913), Shannen Doherty (1971), Kalākaua (1836), and Sol LeWitt (1928).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Vannevar Bush ranks 9. Before him are Leslie Groves (1896), Howard H. Aiken (1900), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), Henry Gantt (1861), Jack Parsons (1914), and Jack Swigert (1931). After him are Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), J. Walter Christie (1865), Kelly Johnson (1910), Joseph Strauss (1870), and Eugene Stoner (1922).

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