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MORGAN SPARKS
MORGAN SPARKS
Pages 320-327
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That same year, he began his long tenure at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, working on batteries for naval torpedoes in the Electrochemical Research Department. In 1948 he joined the new Bell Labs Semiconductor Physics Group, just as it was about to announce the invention of the first transistor.
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Shortly thereafter, Shockley, Sparks and Teal published these results in a nowfamous paper in Physical Review. In 1955, Sparks became a Director of Solid State Research at Bell Labs, and advanced through its management ranks, becoming Vice President of Electronics Technology by 1971.
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But the modern Sandia, the multiprogram national laboratory that develops technical solutions to the nation's most pressing national security challenges, that Sandia is the invention of Morgan Sparks, who came to Sandia in 1972 and served as director until his retirement in 1981. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Sandia was a sharply focused, single-mission laboratory -- and the mission was nuclear weapons.
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But Sandia is a first-rate, world-class laboratory in its own right." Jack Howard, who served as Morgan's executive vice president from 1973 to 1981, recalled the many dimensions of the man. He wrote in an e-mail to the Sandia Lab News,
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He led the effort to continue activities at Kirtland Air Force Base and served on the boards of Presbyterian and Lovelace hospitals, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and the Albuquerque Academy. Until 2007 he was president of High Desert Investment Corporation, the developers of the High Desert and Mariposa communities.
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326 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES married for 57 years until Bette's death in 2006. The couple is survived by four children, Margaret Potter and Gordon Sparks, both of Waitsfield, Vermont; Patricia Fusting of Fullerton, California; and Morgan Sparks, Jr., of Burlington, Vermont.
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