Mervin Kelly
- Born: February 14, 1894 (Princeton, Missouri)
- Died: March 18, 1971 (Port Saint Lucie, Florida)
Education
- 1914: BS, University of Missouri
- 1915: MS, University of Kentucky
- 1918: PhD, University of Chicago (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1918–1925: Western Electric Company, Physicist
- 1925–1930: Bell Laboratories, Physicist
- 1930–1936: Bell Laboratories, Director, Vacuum Tube Development
- 1936–1944: Bell Laboratories, Director of Research
- 1944–1951: Bell Laboratories, Executive Vice President
- 1951–1959: Bell Laboratories, President
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1944–1959: Member, Board of Directors, Bell Laboratories
- 1947–1948: Member, Special Committee on Navigation, Research and Development Board, United States Department of Defense
- 1950–1954: Vice Chair, Science Advisory Board, United States Air Force
- 1954–1955: Member, Committee on Business Organization, Hoover Commission, United States Department of Defense
- 1954–1955: Chair, Subcommittee on Research Activities in the Department and Related Agencies, United States Department of Defense
- 1954–1958: Member, Research Advisory Committee, United States Navy
- 1954–1962: Chair, Statutory Visiting Committee, National Bureau of Standards
- 1955–1955: Chair, Science Advisory Board, United States Air Force
- 1956–1956: Chair, Research Advisory Committee, United States Navy
- 1959–1959: Chair, Board of Directors, Bell Laboratories
- 1959–1962: Research Management Consultant, Bausch and Lomb
- 1959–1971: Research Management Consultant, IBM
- 1961–1963: Special Consultant, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Selected Awards and Honors
Published Resources
John R. Pierce, "Mervin Joe Kelly: 1894-1971", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Michael O'Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997)
