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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">E. Finley Carter</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1901-07-01</span>)</span>July 1, 1901<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Elgin,_Texas" title="Elgin, Texas">Elgin, Texas</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">January 18, 1979<span style="display:none">(1979-01-18)</span> (aged 77)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto, California</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/People_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="People of the United States">American</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rice_University" title="Rice University">Rice Institute</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/IEEE_Fellow" class="mw-redirect" title="IEEE Fellow">IEEE Fellow</a><br /><a href="/wiki/IEEE_Founders_Medal" title="IEEE Founders Medal">IEEE Founders Medal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1969)</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a><br />United Research Corporation<br /><a href="/wiki/Sylvania_Electric_Products" title="Sylvania Electric Products">Sylvania Electric Products</a><br /><a href="/wiki/SRI_International" title="SRI International">SRI International</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Emmett Finley Carter</b> (July 1, 1901 - February 18, 1979) was an electrical engineer that worked at several companies; most notably, he was in upper management of <a href="/wiki/Sylvania_Electric_Products" title="Sylvania Electric Products">Sylvania Electric Products</a> and was the director, and later president, of <a href="/wiki/SRI_International" title="SRI International">SRI International</a> from 1956 to 1963. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._Finley_Carter&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Carter was born on July 1, 1901, in <a href="/wiki/Elgin,_Texas" title="Elgin, Texas">Elgin, Texas</a>, to Alfred Hinds Carter and Jimmie Lucretia Stevens.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He graduated from <a href="/wiki/Rice_University" title="Rice University">Rice Institute</a> (in <a href="/wiki/Houston,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Houston, Texas">Houston, Texas</a>) in 1922 with a degree in electrical engineering.<sup id="cite_ref-ire_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ire-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career">Early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._Finley_Carter&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After graduation, he joined <a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a> in <a href="/wiki/Schenectady,_New_York" title="Schenectady, New York">Schenectady, New York</a>, where he developed high-power broadcast transmitters for <a href="/wiki/WGY_(AM)" title="WGY (AM)">WGY</a> in Schenectady; <a href="/wiki/KGO_(AM)" title="KGO (AM)">KGO</a> in Oakland; and <a href="/wiki/KOA_(AM)" title="KOA (AM)">KOA</a> in Denver. He held a variety of positions, particularly in research and development, leaving the company in charge of a division.<sup id="cite_ref-ire_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ire-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1929, Carter became the director of the radio division of United Research Corporation in New York, which was part of <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Pictures</a>. In this position, he designed Brunswick radios, circuits, and receivers, and held several patents covering his work during this period.<sup id="cite_ref-ire_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ire-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ieee_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ieee-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He joined <a href="/wiki/Sylvania_Electric_Products" title="Sylvania Electric Products">Sylvania Electric Products</a> in September 1932 as a consulting engineer, and would eventually become assistant chief engineer; in February 1941, he organized a new industrial relations department of Sylvania, and was elected director of Sylvania in March, 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-ire_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ire-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1945, Carter was named Vice President of Engineering and in 1952 he was named Vice President and Technical Director.<sup id="cite_ref-ieee_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ieee-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._Finley_Carter&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1954, Carter joined the Sanford Research Institute (SRI), now known as <a href="/wiki/SRI_International" title="SRI International">SRI International</a>, as a Manager of Research Operations, reporting to director <a href="/wiki/Jesse_E._Hobson" title="Jesse E. Hobson">Jesse E. Hobson</a>; his duties focused on coordinating interdisciplinary research efforts, particularly the ones that involved both physical and life sciences, or both economics and engineering.<sup id="cite_ref-ieee_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ieee-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1956, Carter became the director of SRI, and a member of its board of directors. In 1959, SRI reorganized its leadership structure, and Carter was named the organization's first president. In 1958, SRI established its Life Sciences division under <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Graham" title="Bruce Graham">Bruce Graham</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carter was president until 1963, and retired from SRI in 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-ieee_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ieee-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_memberships">Awards and memberships</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._Finley_Carter&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards and memberships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Carter was a member of the <a href="/wiki/IEEE" class="mw-redirect" title="IEEE">IEEE</a>, American Radio Relay League, <a href="/wiki/Sigma_Xi" title="Sigma Xi">Sigma Xi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eta_Kappa_Nu" title="Eta Kappa Nu">Eta Kappa Nu</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tau_Beta_Pi" title="Tau Beta Pi">Tau Beta Pi</a>. He was a fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Radio_Engineers" title="Institute of Radio Engineers">Institute of Radio Engineers</a>, and served on its board of directors.<sup id="cite_ref-ire_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ire-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was named an <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Fellow" class="mw-redirect" title="IEEE Fellow">IEEE Fellow</a> in 1949,<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and received the <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Founders_Medal" title="IEEE Founders Medal">IEEE Founders Medal</a> in 1969 "for outstanding contributions to the electrical engineering profession and to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers through wise and imaginative leadership in the planning and administration of technical developments in electronics and telecommunications".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._Finley_Carter&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hindskw.com/KennethHinds/15068.html">"Alfred Carter Genealogy"</a>. <i>Genealogy of Ken Hinds</i>. 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