James B. Owens
James B. Owens | |
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Born | (1920-07-23)July 23, 1920 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
Died | November 2, 2009(2009-11-02) (aged 89) Lincolnshire, Illinois, U.S. |
Alma mater | Rice University |
Spouse | Bette Craig |
Children | Craig Owens (critic), Eric Owens [1] |
Awards | IEEE Founders Medal (1987) |
James Beverly[2] Owens (July 23, 1920 – November 2, 2009) was an American engineer and company executive.
Owens was born in Houston, Texas in July 1920.[3][4] He attended Rice University and also studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Westinghouse Advanced Electrical Design School. During World War II, he worked for Westinghouse as a designer of military radar technology. He later served as president of Gould-Brown Boveri, an electrical equipment distributor. He was the president of the IEEE in 1983 as well as on its board of directors from 1981 to 1984.[5] He received the IEEE Founders Medal in 1987 "for exemplary and inspirational leadership, distinguished service, and administrative excellence in electric power engineering and the electrical engineering profession".[6] Owens died in Lincolnshire, Illinois in November 2009 at the age of 89.[7]
References
- ^ ETHW: James B. Owens
- ^ The Thresher, October 25, 1940
- ^ "IEEE Membership Directory". 2001.
- ^ James Beverly Owens in the Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
- ^ ETHW: James B. Owens
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-01. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Ancestry: James B. Owens in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
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