Whitney, WR

Japanese: Whitney,W.R.(英語表記)WhitneyWR
Whitney, WR

... General Electric (GE), which was formed in 1892 by the merger of two American electric companies, established a research laboratory in 1900 with the aim of revitalizing business activities. The director of the laboratory, WR Whitney (1868-1958), was a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the time, but continued to work as a university professor even after assuming his position as director. This is because Whitney believed that even a corporate laboratory should not neglect basic research and that an academic atmosphere was desirable. ...

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… 1892年,アメリカの二つの電気会社が合体して誕生したゼネラル・エレクトリック社(GE)は,企業活動の活性化をもくろんで,1900年に研究所を設立した。所長になったホイットニーW.R.Whitney(1868‐1958)は,当時マサチューセッツ工科大学(MIT)の化学教授であったが,所長就任後も大学教授としての活動を続けた。というのも,ホイットニーは企業研究所といえども基礎研究をおろそかにすべきでなく,アカデミックな雰囲気が望ましいと考えていたからである。…

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