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November 16, 1999
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Glenn Small
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Morris Tanenbaum Receives Heritage
Award
The Johns Hopkins University Alumni Council has given the
University's Heritage
Award to Morris Tanenbaum, a distinguished Hopkins graduate and
longtime member of
the Board of Trustees.
Tanenbaum, the former chairman and CEO of AT&T
Communications, accepted
the award in a ceremony November 13 in New York. The Alumni
Council chose to
honor Tanenbaum for his dedicated service as a trustee from 1980
and 1996 and, since
that time, as an emeritus member of the board. The council
especially noted
Tanenbaum's service as chair of the Finance Committee, helping
focus and guide the
university's financial success during the 1990s.
A 1949 graduate of the university's Krieger
School of Arts and
Sciences, Tanenbaum worked for many years in Bell
Laboratories and made
significant contributions to electronics technology. He holds
numerous patents and
developed the silicon diffused transistor, a basic element in
modern integrated circuitry.
Tanenbaum, who lives in Short Hills, N.J., also led the group
that invented the first high
field superconducting magnets that are used today in medical
imaging devices and other
appliances.
The Johns Hopkins Heritage Award was established in 1973 as
a way to
memorialize Johns Hopkins on the centennial of his death and to
honor alumni and
friends of the university.
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