Eugene McDermott was an engineer and geophysicist who co-founded Geophysical Service Incorporated in 1930 and later its parent company Texas Instruments in 1951.
10 Facts About Eugene McDermott
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In 1923, McDermott found work with Western Electric Company where he first met J Clarence Karcher.
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Eugene McDermott received a Master of Arts in physics from Columbia University in 1925 and immediately began to work for his friend Karcher who hired him to work for Geophysical Research Corporation.
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Eugene McDermott was the Chairman of TI from 1951 to 1957, Chairman of the executive committee of Board of Directors from 1957 to 1964 and Director until his death in 1973.
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Eugene McDermott had membership in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for which he served as president from 1933 to 1934, the Seismological Society of America, the American Physicians Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Mathematical Society, the American Geographical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Eugene McDermott was a major donor to many universities and served on the boards of Southern Methodist University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
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Eugene McDermott co-founded the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest in 1961, which became the University of Texas at Dallas in 1969.
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Eugene McDermott was actively involved in the arts, serving on the Boards of the Dallas Public Library, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and aided in the conception of the Margo Jones Theatre, an early experiment in theatre in the round.
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Eugene McDermott died at his home in Dallas on August 23,1973, after an illness of several months.
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Eugene McDermott was buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Dallas after services were held at Dallas's Highland Park Methodist Church.