Emanuel R. Piore

In 1917 he moved with his family to the United States and in 1924 U.S. citizen. He studied physics at the University of Wisconsin -Madison ( BA 1930, PhD 1935) and worked at RCA in the Electronics Research Laboratory until 1942, during World War II with the U.S. Navy, where he 1947/48 first civilian director of the Office of Naval Research was, and was 1948/49, Head of the Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1949 he was back at the Office of Naval Research as Deputy Head for scientists and senior scientists. 1955/56, he was Vice President and Research Director at Avco Manufacturing Corporation. In 1956, he became the first director of research at IBM. He was Vice President and Group Executive in 1963 and 1965, senior scientist at IBM and was from 1962 to 1973 in the Board of Directors (Board of Directors ).

Under his leadership, was built in New York, the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, and he initiated the IBM Fellow program.

In 1967, he received the Medal IRI. The IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award is named after him.

1959 to 1962 he was in the Science Advisory Committee of the U.S. president.