- Charles F. Scott (engineer)
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Charles F. Scott 
Born 1864
Athens, OhioDied April 1, 1944 Notable awards IEEE Edison Medal Charles F. Scott (Athens, Ohio, 1864-April 1, 1944) was an electrical engineer.
He graduated from Ohio State University in 1885, and joined the engineering staff of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1888. He assisted the inventor Nikola Tesla with his work on the alternating-current induction motor.
He was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE later IEEE).[1] He received the 1929 AIEE Edison Medal.
References
- ^ "Charles F. Scott". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Charles_F._Scott. Retrieved 08 August 2011.
IEEE Edison Medal 1926–1950 William D. Coolidge (1927) · Frank B. Jewett (1928) · Charles F. Scott (1929) · Frank Conrad (1930) · Edwin W. Rice (1931) · Bancroft Gherardi (1932) · Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1933) · Willis R. Whitney (1934) · Lewis B. Stillwell (1935) · Alex Dow (1936) · Gano Dunn (1937) · Dugald C. Jackson (1938) · Philip Torchio (1939) · George Ashley Campbell (1940) · John B. Whitehead (1941) · Edwin H. Armstrong (1942) · Vannevar Bush (1943) · Ernst Alexanderson (1944) · Philip Sporn (1945) · Lee De Forest (1946) · Joseph Slepian (1947) · Morris E. Leeds (1948) · Karl B. McEachron (1949) · Otto B. Blackwell (1950)
Complete roster: 1909–1925 · 1926–1950 · 1951–1975 · 1976–2000 · 2001–present Categories:- 1864 births
- 1944 deaths
- People from Athens, Ohio
- American electrical engineers
- Fellow Members of the IEEE
- IEEE Edison Medal recipients
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