Guide to the Willard Harrison Bennett National Inventors Hall of Fame Materials, 1990

Descriptive Summary

Repository: North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Creator: Bennett, Willard Harrison, 1903 - 1987
Title: Willard Harrison Bennett National Inventors Hall of Fame materials, 1990 - 1991
Call Number: MSS 234
Extent: 1 folder
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.
Language of Material: English

Information for Users

Restrictions to Access: This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
Acquisitions Information: Received from Douglas Taylor Bennett, 1991 May 21
Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], Willard Harrison Bennett National Inventors Hall of Fame materials, MSS 234, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
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Biographical Note

Ohio native Willard Harrison Bennett (1903 - 1987) was the Burlington Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University from 1961 to 1976. He researched in the areas of plasma physics, astrophysics, geophysics, surface physics, and physical chemistry. Bennett held nearly 70 United States and foreign patents, including the radio frequency mass spectrometer, which he invented in 1955.

Bennett graduated cum laude from Ohio State University in 1924, recieved his master's degree in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1926, and completed a Ph.D. in physics at Ohio State in 1928. He held several jobs before coming to North Carolina State University, including teaching at Ohio State (1930 - 1938), being the director of research at the Electronic Research Corporation (1938 - 1941), seeing active duty during WWII (1941 - 1946), eventually becoming a lieutenant colonel, and being the branch head and division consultant at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (1951 - 1961).

Scope and Content Note

The Willard Harrison Bennett National Inventors Hall of Fame materials contain materials regarding Bennett's posthumous induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio. These materials include biographical information, photographs, a press release, correspondence, the Summer 1991 edition of National Invention Center News, a publication from the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and newsclippings.

Online Catalog Terms

The following terms have been used to index the guide to the collection in the NCSU Library's online catalog.

Personal Name

Bennett, Willard Harrison, 1903 - 1987

Topics

Inventors--North Carolina

Related Material

Willard Harrison Bennett Biographical File, UA 50.3

Guide to the Willard Harrison Bennett National Inventors Hall of Fame Materials, 1990 - 1991

Collection Number MSS 234

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