Jewett, FB (English spelling) JewettFB

Japanese: Jewett,F.B.(英語表記)JewettFB
Jewett, FB (English spelling) JewettFB

…As chairman of the Advisory Committee on Aeronautics in 1938-39, he worked to increase military aircraft. In 1940, he became chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), an organization established by presidential decree to assist and coordinate weapons research, and worked on scientific mobilization together with MIT President KT Compton (1887-1954, brother of AH Compton), Harvard University President JB Conant, and Bell Telephone Laboratories President FB Jewett (1879-1949). He also became director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) established in 1941. …

[Bell Telephone Laboratories]

...Bell Telephone Laboratories was established based on these achievements. The first director, FB Jewett (1879-1949), valued the independence of his researchers from the beginning and placed as much importance on basic research as on practical research. In this atmosphere, the researchers not only made great contributions to the development of the Bell System through many inventions and discoveries in the fields of electricity and communications, but also contributed to the development of physics, such as CJ Davisson and LH Germer's experimental proof of the wave nature of the electron (1927). ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Jewett, FB" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…38‐39年航空諮問委員会委員長として,軍用航空機の増強にとり組む。40年大統領令によって設立された兵器研究の援助・調整機構である国防研究委員会(NDRC)委員長となり,MIT学長K.T.コンプトン(1887‐1954,A.H.コンプトンの兄),ハーバード大学長J.B.コナント,ベル電話研究所会長ジューエットF.B.Jewett(1879‐1949)らとともに科学動員にとり組む。また41年に設立された科学研究開発局(OSRD)の長官となる。…

【ベル電話研究所】より

…その実績を踏まえてベル電話研究所が設立されたわけである。初代所長ジューエットF.B.Jewett(1879‐1949)は,当初から研究員の自主性を重んじ,また実用研究に劣らず基礎研究を重視した。そのような気風の中で,研究員たちは電気・通信に関する多くの発明・発見を通じて,ベル・システムの発展に大きく貢献したばかりでなく,C.J.デビッソンとジャーマーL.H.Germerによる電子の波動性の実験的証明(1927)など,物理学の発展にも寄与した。…

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