William O. Baker
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Biography
He was born on July 15, 1915, in Chestertown, Maryland.[1]
He received his degree from Washington College and went on to get a doctorate from Princeton University, studying under Charles Phelps Smyth. He later did research for Bell Labs that helped lead to synthetic rubber. He held 11 patents in all. He headed Bell Labs from 1973 to 1979. Prior to being named president, he had served as Bell Labs Vice President for Research since 1955. Baker had lived in the New Vernon section of Harding Township[2] and was a longtime resident of Morristown, New Jersey.[1]
In 1979, he was a resident of Morristown, NJ upon his tenure ending as President of Bell Labs.[3]
He died of heart failure on October 31, 2005, in Chatham, New Jersey.[1]
Awards and honors
- Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1961)[4]
- Perkin Medal (1963)[5]
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (1963)[6]
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1965)[7]
- Priestley Medal (1966)
- IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Institute (1970)
- American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (1975)
- Charles Lathrop Parsons Award, American Chemical Society (1976)[8]
- Miles Conrad Award, NFAIS (1977)[9]
- Willard Gibbs Award (1978)
- Vannevar Bush Award (1981)
- SASA Medal of Achievement (1984) Thereafter known as the William Oliver Baker Award
- National Medal of Science (1988)
- Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society (2000).[10]
- AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize (1995)
- Marconi Society (2003)
References
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- ↑ "William O. Baker stood with presidents", New Jersey Hills, November 4, 2005. Accessed December 2, 2019. "It was 1961. New Vernon resident and scientist William Oliver Baker stood with President John F. Kennedy in the oval office."
- ↑ The Daily Register, VOL.101 NO. 248, APRIL 12, 1979, http://209.212.22.88/DATA/RBR/1970-1979/1979/1979.04.12.pdf
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External links
- Oral History interview transcript for William O. Baker on 7 May 1996, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- William O. Baker Papers at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
- William O. Baker tribute site
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