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THE resignation of Dr. Frank B. Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences, from his post as president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., in New York City, has recently been announced. He now becomes chairman of the Board of Directors, and will thus have more time to aid the U.S. Government as a member of the National Defence Research Committee. He will be succeeded as president of the Laboratories by Dr. O. E. Buckley, who has been executive vice-president. For the past twenty-four years, Dr. Jewett has been the operating head of the Bell System's research programme, and since 1930 has been responsible both for the programme and its execution. He will now continue as vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in charge of research, as such retaining his jurisdiction over these activities. Dr. Buckley, new president of the Laboratories, has been associated with telephone research since he entered the Bell System in 1914. He became director of research in 1933 and executive vice-president in 1936 (see also p. 824 of this issue).
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Dr. F. B. Jewett. Nature 146, 834 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146834a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146834a0