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John A. Hornbeck
John A. Hornbeck
Pages 145-150
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His father was a college physics professor, and John grew up in Northfield, Minnesota, where he was born November 4, 1918, and Kalamazoo, Michigan college towns where his father taught. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1939.
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In 1958 he became executive director of Semiconductor Device and Electron Tube Division. Two years later Bell Labs launched a major development project Telstar, the first active communication satellite.
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He has helped to organize talented work in each of those activities." In addition to his membership in the National Academy of Engineering, John was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served on the Naval Studies Board of the National Research Council and NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
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Community Chest, president of the Albuquerque United Community Fund, and director of the Albuquerque Presbyterian Hospital Foundation.
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