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West, James E., 1931-

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Personal name headingWest, James E., 1931-
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Associated countryUnited States
Place of birthPrince Edward County (Va.)
AffiliationJohns Hopkins University. School of Engineering Bell Labs National Academy of Engineering National Inventors Hall of Fame (U.S.) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Acoustical Society of America
Profession or occupationInventors
Found inMinority inventors, 2002: video introduction (James E. West)
WWW, February 20, 2003 Pulse newsletter webpage (Dr. James West; patent holder and co-inventor of the electret microscope)
WWW, February 20, 2003 African Americans hold patents on important inventions webpage (Dr. James West; b. in 1931 in Prince Edward County, VA)
Microphones, mentoring, minorities, and missed opportunities, 2012: title page (Dr. James E. West) page 16 (James E. West, a research professor at Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering, is best knkown as the co-inventor of the foil-electret transducer; career at Bell Laboratories that spanned more than 40 years; he earned 47 US and over 200 foreign patents; elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 and inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1999; fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Acoustical Society of Amerca; awarded the 2006 National Medal of Technology)