| 词条 | Marron William Fort |
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Early life and educationBorn in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1906, Fort attended Cambridge High and Latin School, graduating on June 18, 1918.[3] He entered MIT in 1922, graduating with an S.B. in 1926 and an S.M. in 1927, both in electrical engineering. In 1933, he completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry with a dissertation entitled, "Heat of Dilution of Hydrochloric Acid by Continuous Flow Calorimetry."[4] CareerDuring World War II, Fort served as chief chemist and plant superintendent of H. and G. J. Caldwell Company in Massachusetts.[5] In 1954, he joined the chemical industries staff at the Advisory Bureau for Commerce of the U.S. Department of Commerce, serving in Tel Aviv, Israel,[2][3] making him the highest ranked African-American appointed to a governmental technical post in a foreign country at that time.[6] In 1957, he joined the International Cooperation Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of State, and then served as deputy chief on the Industrial and Transportation Division, U.S. Operations Mission, of the International Co-op Administration at Ankara, Turkey, until 1959. He became chief of this same division in Pakistan until 1961 when he returned to Washington, D.C., with the Department of State.[2][3] Death and legacyFort died in Washington on September 18, 1961 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.[2] In 1973, MIT established a graduate fellowship in Fort's honor. The Fort Fellowship was awarded to "the most promising senior minority student who has been accepted for graduate study at M.I.T."[7][8] References{{Portal| African American}}1. ^{{cite web|last1=Hubbard|first1=David|title=Engineering and the African-American Experience|url=http://library.mst.edu/exhibits/africanamericanengineers/|website=Curtis Laws Wilson Library|publisher=Missouri University of Science and Technology|accessdate=29 January 2016}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fort, Marron William}}2. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|title=Fellowship honors late Dr. Wm. Fort|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=INR19730217-01.1.14|accessdate=29 January 2016|publisher=Indianapolis Recorder|date=17 February 1973}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite book|last1=Gordon|first1=Jacob, ed.|title=The Black Male in White America|date=2004|publisher=Nova Publishers|location=New York|isbn=1-59033-757-3|page=83|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2jOaPh8lDpsC&pg=PA83|accessdate=29 January 2016}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Fort|first1=Marron William|title=Heat of dilution of hydrochloric acid by continuous flow calorimetry|date=1933|publisher=MIT|location=Cambridge|url=http://library.mit.edu/item/000798757|accessdate=29 January 2016}} 5. ^{{Cite book|title = A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience|publisher = MIT Press|year = 2005|isbn = 0-262-16225-3|location = Cambridge|pages = 247|editor-last = Pursell|editor-first = Carroll W.}} 6. ^{{cite news |author=Staff |title=Republicans Name Three to High U.S. Posts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3 |quote= |pages=3–4 |volume = 5 |number=21 |work=Jet |location= |date=April 1, 1954 |accessdate=2016-02-01 }} 7. ^{{Cite journal|url = https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/presidents-reports/1973.pdf|title = Report of the President and the Chancellor Issue 1972-1973|last = |first = |date = November 1973|journal = Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bulletin|doi = |pmid = |access-date = 29 January 2016|volume = 109|issue = 4|page = 253}} 8. ^{{cite news|title=MIT Establishes Fort Scholarship|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2211&dat=19730224&id=90smAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D_4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=917,1061143&hl=en|accessdate=1 February 2016|work=The Afro-American|date=February 24, 1973|page=21}} 7 : African-American chemists|20th-century American chemists|Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni|1906 births|1961 deaths|Burials at Arlington National Cemetery|Cambridge Rindge and Latin School alumni |
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