| LC control no. | no2003017788 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | West, James E., 1931- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Place of birth | Prince Edward County (Va.) |
| Affiliation | Johns 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 occupation | Inventors |
| Found in | Minority 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) |
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