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William Redington Hewlett
William Redington Hewlett was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).
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business · American engineer (1913–2001) · entrepreneur · engineer · computer scientist · also William Redington Hewlett, Bill Hewlett, William R. Hewlett, William R Hewlett, William Hewlett, William Reddington Hewlett
Born 20 May 1913 · Died 12 January 2001 · Q380467
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2001· 2 entries
Died 2001-01-12.
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At the age of 87, and was interred at Los Gatos Memorial Park, San Jose, California
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1997· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Heinz Award (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Lemelson–MIT Prize (1995).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1992).
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1983· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1983).
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1978· 1 entry
Hewlett married Rosemary Kopmeier Bradford
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1973· 1 entry
Won IEEE Founders Medal (1973).
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1966· 2 entries
In 1966, William Hewlett and his wife Flora founded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which became one of the largest private foundations in the United States.
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William Hewlett and his wife Flora founded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which became one of the largest private foundations in the United States
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1947· 1 entry
And tendered an initial public offering in 1957
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1939· 1 entry
And he had 5 children with her: Eleanor, Walter, James, William and Mary
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1934· 1 entry
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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1916· 1 entry
The family moved to San Francisco after his father, Albion Walter Hewlett, took a similar position at Stanford Medical School, located at the time in San Francisco
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-05-20.
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