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ARTHUR G. ANDERSON
Pages 24-29

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From page 25...
... DONOFRIO A RTHUR GEORGE ANDERSON, retired vice president, International Business Machines, died peacefully in his sleep August 31, 2021, at age 94. An icon in the technical community, his technological leadership in IBM Research and Development was legendary.
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From page 26...
... In this position, he had a major role in the development of a more comprehensive method of forming 1  His son Ivan Heninger reports that Art's work in nuclear magnetic resonance "was top of mind in his last weeks of life as he recreated those memories to confirm his own fitness following hip surgery."
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From page 27...
... Returning to Yorktown Heights in 1967 as director of research at Watson Research Center, Art was responsible for IBM's research on information-handling concepts and technologies conducted at laboratories in Zürich, New York City, San Jose, and Yorktown. This was followed in short order by his ascension in 1969 to vice president and director of research, where he had a major impact on IBM's technical effort by vigorously seeking to overcome the two main problems of industrial research laboratories: isolation from mainstream pure research in the universities, and isolation from nuts-andbolts engineering problems in the company's development laboratories.
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From page 28...
... During his retirement Art consulted for the University of California to help revitalize the engineering curriculum. In preparation for this project, he sat in for a semester of undergraduate engineering classes at the California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, including completing the homework assignments.
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From page 29...
... , awarded by the American Physical Society to recognize "outstanding work by physicists combining original research accomplishments with leadership in the management of research or development in industry." The prize is endowed by the Xerox Corporation, one of IBM's major competitors at the time, and Mr. Pake was Art's contemporary leading Xerox's research organization.
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