William Redington Hewlett was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
19 Facts About Bill Hewlett
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Bill Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father taught at the University of Michigan Medical School.
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In 1916 the family moved to San Francisco after his father, Albion Walter Bill Hewlett, took a similar position at Stanford Medical School, located at the time in San Francisco.
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Bill Hewlett was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father who died of a brain tumor in 1925.
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Bill Hewlett received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1936, and a post-masters engineering degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1939.
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Bill Hewlett joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity during his time at Stanford.
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Bill Hewlett had dyslexia, which caused him to struggle with reading and taking notes.
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Bill Hewlett attended undergraduate classes taught by Fred Terman at Stanford and became acquainted with David Packard.
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Bill Hewlett incorporated in 1947 and tendered an initial public offering in 1957.
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Bill Hewlett was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1954.
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Bill Hewlett was president of HP from 1964 to 1977 and served as CEO from 1968 to 1978, after which he was succeeded by John A Young.
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Bill Hewlett remained chairman of the executive committee until 1983, and then served as vice chairman of the board until 1987.
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Bill Hewlett, impressed with Jobs' initiative, offered him a summer job assembling frequency counters.
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Bill Hewlett served in the Army during World War II as a Signal Corps Officer.
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Bill Hewlett then led the electronics section of the Development Division, a new part of the War Department Special Staff.
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Bill Hewlett was elected to the Board of Directors for Chrysler Corporation in 1966, a position he held until 1983.
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Bill Hewlett married Flora Lamson in 1939, and had 5 children with her: Eleanor, Walter, James, William and Mary.
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Bill Hewlett died of heart failure in Palo Alto, California on January 12,2001, and was interred at Los Gatos Memorial Park, San Jose, California.
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In 1999, the William R Hewlett Teaching Center at Stanford was named in his honor.