George Papp
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Papp, George
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content: International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
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content: Lott, H.J.
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content: Salinger, Hans W.G.
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content: Hirsch, Robert L.
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content: Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, b. 1906
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Information, Technology and Society
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content: Cawein, Madison
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content: Essig, Sanford
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content: Eberhardt, Edward
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content: ITT Industrial Research Laboratories Electron Tube Research Records
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content: 1938 - 1964
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.0822, Series 2
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content: Archival materials
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content: George Papp was born in Hungary, receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Szeged and his PhD from the University of Budapest.  Papp came to the United States in 1949 and was a research associate at George Washington University working on the development of electron multiplier tubes.  In 1952, Papp went to Fort Wayne, Indiana to be work as an engineer at ITT Industrial Laboratories.  He would later head the Electron Physics Laboratory and serve as the Technical Advisor to the Storage and Vacuum Tube Development Manager.    His experience included the physics and measurement of gamma rays, the oxidation of complex organic metal compounds, secondary electron emission, the physics and application of electromultipliers, high speed coincidence counting technique and circuitry, nuclear instrumentation, tube diodes for microwave detection, image converter tubes, image storage tubes, and infrared detection and imaging.

This series contains materials that were originally in two binders labeled "George Papp."   Materials include: correspondence, research notes, reports, curriculum vitae, publications, and proposals.  Of note is an address given by Papp at the annual banquet of the Fort Wayne Kiwanis Club celebrating the achievement of the best students of Fort Wayne's high schools in the field of citizenship, May 27, 1958.