Tribute to Vannevar Bush an American electrical engineer, inventor and science administrator,

Vannevar Bush Born 11 Mar 1890; died 28 Jun 1974 .
American electrical engineer who headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during WW II to
stimulate scientific research. His office contracted with, and coordinated research by, universities and industry.

The office funded a wide field of activities, such as antibiotic research, improving explosives, and devising

blood substitutes. Before the war, in 1925, at age 35, he developed the differential analyzer, the world’s first

analog computer. It was capable of solving differential equations. (This put into productive form, the mechanical

concept left incomplete by Charles Babbage, 50 years earlier; and theoretical work by Lord Kelvin). The machine

filled a 20×30 ft (6×9 m) room. He seeded ideas later adopted as internet hypertext links.«

Bush received the AIEE's Edison Medal in 1943, "for his contribution to the advancement of electrical engineering,

particularly through the development of new applications of mathematics to engineering problems, and for his

eminent service to the nation in guiding the war research program."
In 1945, Bush was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
In 1949, he received the IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Institute in recognition of his contributions as a

leader of research and development.
President Truman awarded Bush the Medal of Merit with bronze oak leaf cluster in 1948.
President Lyndon Johnson awarded him the National Medal of Science in 1963.
President Richard Nixon presented him, as well as James B. Conant and General Leslie R. Groves with the unique

Atomic Pioneers Award from the Atomic Energy Commission in February 1970.
Bush was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1948, and an Officer of the French Legion

of Honor in 1955.
In 1980, the National Science Foundation created the Vannevar Bush Award to honor his contributions to public

service. The Vannevar Bush papers are located in several places, with the majority of the collection held at the

Library of Congress. Additional papers are held by the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections, the

Carnegie Institution, and the National Archives and Records Administration.[