Vannevar Bush (/ v æ ˈ n iː v ɑːr / 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 …

Vannevar Bush, né le 11 mars 1890 à Everett dans le Massachusetts et mort le 30 juin 1974 à Belmont dans le Massachusetts, est un ingénieur américain.. Conseiller scientifique du président Roosevelt et chercheur au Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), il est principalement connu en tant que maître d’œuvre de la recherche scientifique des États-Unis lors de la …

Memex is the name of the hypothetical electromechanical device that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 article "As We May Think".Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility".

Norman Ernest Borlaug (/ ˈ b ɔːr l ɔː ɡ /; March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution.Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the …

En 1945, il est signalé par Vannevar Bush dans un article célèbre de As we may think qui introduisait la notion de World Wide Web . En 1948, il en fera une démonstration aux studios de la WDR pour Werner Meyer-Eppler, directeur de l'Institut de phonétique à l'université de Bonn.

Leroy "Lee" Edward Hood (born October 10, 1938) is an American biologist who has served on the faculties at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Washington. Hood has developed ground-breaking scientific instruments which made possible major advances in the biological sciences and the medical sciences. These include the first gas phase protein …

Vannevar Bush: As We May Think. In: Atlantic Monthly, 176, S. 101–108 (theatlantic.com). Paul Otlet: Traité de documentation. Brüssel 1934. Nachdruck: Centre de lecture publique de la Communauté française de Belgique 1989, ISBN 2-87130-015-1 (archive.org). Textsammlungen. Karin Bruns, Ramón Reichert (Hrsg.):

The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1), and the first designed and built for continuous operation.It was built during World War II as part of the …