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知新集: 昔日大企業的小雇員: 《安東‧菲利浦斯》 (Anton Philips of Eindhoven By P. J. Bouman )。杜邦 Pierre Samuel du Pont 故居 A Man and His Garden. The End is Just the Beginning: : U. A. Whitaker, Biography of an Engineer

知新集: 昔日大企業的小雇員: 《安東‧菲利浦斯》 (Anton Philips of Eindhoven By P. J. Bouman )。杜邦 Pierre Samuel du Pont 故居 A Man and His Garden.   The End is Just the Beginning: : U. A. Whitaker, Biography of an Engineer

The End is Just the Beginning: : U. A. Whitaker, Biography of an Engineer

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Uncas A. Whitaker

Uncas Aeneas Whitaker (b. March 22, 1900 in Lincoln, Kansas; d. September 1975 in Maine)[1] was raised in Missouri. He was a prominent mechanical engineerelectrical engineerlawyerentrepreneur, and philanthropist. He received a mechanical engineering degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an electrical engineering degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology and a law degree from the Cleveland Law School.[2] At the age of 41, he founded Aircraft-Marine Products, AMP Incorporated, in HarrisburgPennsylvania, which would become the world's largest manufacturer of electrical devices and connectors. His company was instrumental in the development of miniature components and advanced computer technologies which have been incorporated into literally thousands of business operations and commercial products.[2]

When Whitaker died in 1975, he left part of his fortune for a foundation to improve people's lives primarily by supporting Biomedical engineering research and education. Money provided for the Whitaker Foundation by Whitaker and his wife, Helen Whitaker, totaled $120 million. In 1994, the foundation was the sixty-first largest foundation in the United States with assets of $340 million and annual expenditures of $26 million.

During his lifetime, Whitaker also created a philanthropic program to improve the quality of life in the Harrisburg area, AMP's home community. Today the Harrisburg-area Regional Program continues this initiative.[3]

Notable things named after U. A. Whitaker include:

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The Whitaker foundation: the end will be just the beginning

Katona, P.G.;
The Whitaker Foundation

This paper appears in: Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on
Issue Date: Aug. 2002
Volume: 21 Issue:8
On page(s): 845 - 849
ISSN: 0278-0062
References Cited: 11
Cited by : 7
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TMI.2002.803606
Date of Current Version: 16 十二月 2002
PubMed ID: 12472257
Sponsored by: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society

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  2. M. Gibbons Jr., "Going for broke", Philanthropy , pp.30 - 31 , 2001.

  3. J. H. Dickason and D. Neuhauser, Closing a Foundation: The Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust, , 2000. :Council on Foundations, Inc.

  4. H. P. Schwan, "The development of biomedical engineering: Historical comments and early developments", IEEE Trans, Biomed. Eng., vol. BME-31 , pp.730 - 736 , 1984.

  5. H. P. Schwan, Ed., "The history of biomedical engineering ", IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Mag., vol. 10, pp.24 - 50 , 1991.

  6. J. E. Jacobs, Ed., "Papers from symposium on educational frontiers in bio-medical engineering", IRE Trans. Bio-Med. Elect., pp.208 - 238 , 1961 .

  7. E. L. Carstensen, D. W. Healy Jr., H. P. Schwan, and S. Talbot, "Curriculum development in biomedical engineering", J. Eng. Educ., vol. 53, pp.446 - 452 , 1963.

  8. L. Stark, R. Arzbaecher, G. Agarwal, J. Brodkey, D. P. Henry, and W. O'Neill, "Status of research in biomedical engineering", IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. BME-15, pp.210 - 231 , 1968.

  9. T. R. Harris, "Principles for the design of biomedical engineering curricula", Proc. 2001 Annu. Fall Meeting BMES; Ann. BME, vol. 29 suppl. 1, p.S-104 , 2001.

  10. Annual Report, , 1994. :The Whitaker Foundation

  11. W. R. Hendee, S. Chien, C. D. Maynard, and D. J. Dean, "The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering: History, status and potential impact", Ann. Biomed. Eng., vol. 30, pp.2 - 10 , 2002.
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  1. Abu-Faraj, Ziad O., "Career development in Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering: A student's roadmap", Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, On page(s): 1564 - 1567, Volume: Issue: , 20-25 Aug. 2008
    Abstract | Full Text: PDF (202KB)
  2. Abu-Faraj, Ziad O., "Project Alexander the Great: A study on the world proliferation of Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering Education", Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, On page(s): 2873 - 2876, Volume: Issue: , 20-25 Aug. 2008
    Abstract | Full Text: PDF (250KB)
  3. Colas Fustero, J., Guillen Arredondo, A., "The biomedical engineer as a driver for Health Technology innovation", Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, On page(s): 6844 - 6846, Volume: Issue: , Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010
    Abstract | Full Text: PDF (208KB)
  4. Linsenmeier, R.A. "What makes a biomedical engineer?", IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Vol.22, Iss.4, pp.32, 2003, ISSN: 07395175
    Abstract|Full Text: PDF (1737KB)
  1. Riederer, Stephen J. "The Whitaker Foundation: 25 years of support for young investigators in magnetic resonance", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol.53, Iss.6, pp.1241, 2005, ISSN: 07403194
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  2. G. Katona, Peter "Biomedical Engineering and The Whitaker Foundation: A Thirty-Year Partnership", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol.34, Iss.6, pp.904, 2006, ISSN: 00906964
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  3. Johnson, Arthur T Horner, Patricia I "Medical Engineering Societies and Organizations", , , 2006
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知新集:維修工作最重要, 巴黎聖母院......  Claude Monet (1840–1926)的 Giverny 故居(1883 起~1926) VS 杜邦 Pierre Samuel du Pont 故居 ( 傷心故事 Longwood Gardens just a shadow of what it used to be.)
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先了解飛利浦的創業父子:Koninklijke Philips N.V.
Founded15 May 1891; 127 years ago
EindhovenNetherlands
FoundersGerard Philips
Frederik Philips


 In 1912, Gerard and his younger brother Anton Philips converted the business to a corporation by founding NV Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken.

Anton Frederik Philips (14 March 1874 – 7 October 1951) co-founded Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in 1912 with his older brother Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His father and Gerard had founded the Philips Company in 1891 as a family business. Anton Philips served as CEO of the company from 1922 to 1939.


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Anton Philips (1874-1951)安東‧菲利浦斯,荷蘭


菲立浦斯(Anton Philips of Eindhoven) 荷蘭-- 傳記 : 《安東菲利浦斯》 玻曼 (P. J. Bouman)原著,鄭慶昭譯,台北:協志,1970





荷蘭人的英文,常有古字,譬如說中文版的序言中第2段有"....it is an epos of an industrialist...","epos" 其實是希臘文 (原意word 或 song),英文的epic ("史詩"等意)從它導出。




這本中文版缺索引及荷蘭地圖等等,然然意思還可表達.......





1979年竹北飛利浦送的2本書之一 當年我可能只有讀了前半
30年之後重翻 早已知道 "一家偉大公司死亡"一書
(1990年代初 有幾次機會一訪 Eindhoven, 都搖頭放棄.....)

他兒子說此書強調傳主認為全球的團隊 之經營方式 要重視成員的工作與事業
中文翻譯有些錯誤 譬如說 傳主過世時奏的是 馬太受難曲

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Anton Frederik Philips (March 14, 1874, Zaltbommel – October 7, 1951, Eindhoven) co-founded Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in 1891 with his brother Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He served as CEO of the company from 1922 to 1939.
During World War I, he managed to increase his sales by taking advantage of a boycott of German goods in several countries, providing them with substitute products.
He died in Eindhoven in 1951.
His father, Benjamin Frederik David Philips (December 1, 1830 – June 12, 1900) was a banker at Zaltbommel in the Netherlands. His mother was Maria Heyligers (1836 – 1921).
He was a first cousin of Karl Marx.
He married Anne Henriëtte Elisabeth Maria de Jongh (Amersfoort, May 30, 1878 – Eindhoven, March 7, 1970), and had:
  • Anna Elisabeth Cornelia Philips (June 19, 1899 – ?), married in 1925 with Pieter Franciscus Sylvester Otten (1895 – 1969), and had:
    • Diek Otten
    • Frans Otten (d. 1967), manager in the Dutch electronics company Philips
  • Frederik Jacques Philips (1905-2005)
  • Henriëtte Anna Philips (Eindhoven, October 26, 1906 – ?), married firstly with A. Knappert (d. 1932), without issue, married secondly with G., Jonkheer Sandberg (d. September 5, 1935), without issue, and married thirdly in New York CityNew York, on September 29, 1938 with ..., Jonkheer Gerrit van Riemsdijk (Aerdenhout, January 10, 1911 – Eindhoven, November 8, 2005), and had:
    • ..., Jonkheerin Gerrit van Riemsdijk (b. Waalre, October 2, 1939), married at Waalre on February 17, 1968 with Johannes Jasper Tuijt (b. Atjeh, Koeta Radja, March 10, 1930), son of Jacobus Tuijt and wife Hedwig Jager, without issue
    • ..., Jonkheerin Gerrit van Riemsdijk (b. Waalre, April 3, 1946), married firstly at CalvadosFalaise, on June 6, 1974 with Martinus Jan Petrus Vermooten (Utrecht, September 16, 1939 – Falaise, August 29, 1978), son of Martinus Vermooten and wife Anna Pieternella Hendrika Kwantes, without issue, married secondly in Paris on December 12, 1981 with Jean Yves Louis Bedos (Calvados,Rémy, January 9, 1947 – CalvadosLisieux, October 5, 1982), son of Georges Charles Bedos and wife Henriette Louise Piel, without issue, and married thirdly at MancheSartilly, on September 21, 1985 with Arnaud Evain (b. ArdennesSedan, July 7, 1952), son of Jean Claude Evain and wife Flore Halleux, without issue
    • ..., Jonkheerin Gerrit van Riemsdijk (b. Waalre, September 4, 1948), married at Waalre, October 28, 1972 with Elie Johan François van Dissel (b. Eindhoven, October 9, 1948), son of Willem Pieter Jacob van Dissel and wife Francisca Frederike Marie Wirtz, without issue
    •  
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飛利浦的世紀 (張焜傑); Anton Philips (1874-1951)安東‧菲利浦斯/Frits Philips 1905-2005?




Statue of Frits Philips in Eindhoven

Obituary

Frits Philips

Dutch industrialist who nurtured his company and its staff
Frits Philips, who has died at the age of 100 from complications after a fall on his estate at Eindhoven, in the southeast Netherlands, spent his whole working life with the great Dutch electrical conglomerate that his uncle had founded as a light-bulb factory. He headed the organisation during the 1960s and became a virtual national institution in Holland, as demonstrated by the celebration of his centenary earlier this year.Eindhoven, still the home of the firm, is a quintessential company town. Its world-class football team, PSV, started as the Philips factory side - the initials stand for Philips Sport Vereniging (association) - and Frits was probably its most passionate supporter. The town boasts a Frits Philips concert centre, and he was one of the founders of its technological university. For his 100th birthday, Eindhoven was renamed after him for the day and the team was temporarily restyled simply Frits. A lavish illustrated biography was published and 100,000 Fritske coins, bearing his likeness, were issued in his honour. Dutch media gave the celebrations blanket coverage.
Frederik Jacques Philips, always known as Frits, was born in Eindhoven, where his uncle Gerard had founded a factory to make incandescent lighting, then at the forefront of electrical technology, in 1891. Frits's grandfather put up the capital from his profits as a tobacco and coffee trader, landowner and banker, who financed gas lighting for his local town.
Frits's father, Anton, whose only son he was, joined his technically-minded brother a year later as business manager. It was Anton who began the expansion of the Philips company, becoming its chief executive in 1922. Eindhoven mushroomed from a small village to a considerable urban centre as the company grew, reaching a peak of 400,000 employees worldwide 50 years later, before Far East competition forced it to draw in its horns.
At the age of 18, Frits began his studies at the internationally respected technical high school in Delft. He gained his doctorate in mechanical engineering in 1929, married Sylvia van Lennep from the minor nobility of The Hague in the same year, and joined the family firm in 1930. He started as a factory engineer and soon became joint manager of the bulb plant. The company survived the economic depression of the early 1930s, and Philips developed a humane concern for the poor and the unemployed, coming under the influence of Frank Buchman, the American evangelist and eventual founder of Moral Rearmament.
As scion of a wealthy family, Philips could probably have got out of the Netherlands and avoided the appalling consequences of the German invasion of May 1940. The Dutch surrendered after just five days of fighting, brought to an end by a Nazi threat to use the Luftwaffe against defenceless cities, as demonstrated by the bombing of Rotterdam.
But he decided to stay on, hoping to be able to protect his workforce from the Nazis, and even to obstruct their inevitable determination to use the Philips plants for war production. Then, in April 1943, the occupation regime announced that all 300,000 members of the Dutch army of 1940, who had been released after the surrender, would be rounded up and sent to Germany as conscript labour. This led to a spontaneous wave of strikes.
Some 18,000 Philips workers at Eindhoven - almost the entire workforce - walked out, along with miners, transport workers, teachers and even farmers, who refused to supply the dairies. For this, Philips was taken hostage for the future compliance of his employees, and spent five months in a concentration camp. The Germans also made him set up and run a camp workshop to be staffed by Jewish prisoners, and Philips made it his business to protect them as far as he could. Of the 469 Jews forced to work there, 382 were alive at the end of the war, a far higher proportion of survivors than of the general Dutch-Jewish population, which was almost wiped out. Israel decorated him with the Yad Vashem medal in 1995.
From 1945 onwards, Philips devoted himself to the reconstruction and expansion of the company in South America and Asia, and in many technical innovations. He became president (chief executive) in 1961; on his retirement from the top job in 1971, he became a member of the supervisory board until 1977. He thus had a share in the hard decisions, including making substantial redundancies, that helped the firm to survive fierce competition from east Asia.
Despite this disruption, Philips, a much warmer character than the founders of the firm, remained personally popular among employees and in Eindhoven, where he was universally known as "Mr Frits". Today, a somewhat leaner and meaner Royal Philips Electronics has 160,000 employees worldwide and a turnover of more than €30bn, making it Europe's largest electronic and electrical company and a member of the small but formidable club of Dutch multinationals, alongside Royal Dutch-Shell and Unilever.
Philips' wife died in 1992. He is survived by three sons and three daughters; another daughter predeceased him.
&#'183; Frederik 'Frits' Jacques Philips, industrialist, born April 16 1905; died December 5 2005

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