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Employment

1944-1946
U.S. Navy Technical Radar-Radio Officer
1946-1947
M.I.T. Digital Computer Laboratory staff member
1950-1952
Armour Research Foundation - Physics Dept., Associate Physicist to Physicist
1952-1953
Argonne National Laboratory - Chemistry Division, Associate Physicist
1953-1974
Texas Instruments Incorporated
1955-1961
Director of Solid State Physics Research
1961-1963
Director, Physics Research Laboratory
1963-1972
Director, Central Research Laboratories
1967-1968
Director, then Asst. Vice President of Corporate Research and Engineering
1968-1973
Vice President, Corporate Research and Engineering
1972-1973
Manager, Objectives, Strategies, and Tactics System
1973-1974
Vice President, Corporate Research and Development
1974-1978
Leave of absence; early retirement in 1978
1954-1974
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas
1954-1971
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biophysics
1971-1974
Adjunct Professor of Biophysics
1974-1989
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics
1974-1978
Consultant, Texas Instruments Incorporated
1978-1993
Consultant, Simmonds Precision Products Inc., and others
1979-1983
Director, Simmonds Precision Products Inc.
1989-
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics, Emeritus
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