Thomas j watson jr biography
Thomas j watson.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Born January 8, 1914, Dayton, Ohio; died December 31, 1993; IBM president who led his father's firm to total domination of the computer world and industry.
Education: BA, Brown University, 1937.
Thomas j watson jr biography
Professional Experience: IBM Corp.: Rising from trainee to president, 1937-1973; Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Air Corps, 1940-1946; US Ambassador, Soviet Union, 1979-1988.
Honors and Awards: Applause Award, New York Sales Executives; Drexel Institute Business Administration Award; New York University C.
Walter Nichols Award; Prometheus Award-the highest honor in the electrical manufacturing industry; National Foreign Trade Council's Captain Robert Dollar Award; Saturday Review Businessman of the Year Award; Pace College's Man in Management Award; Silver Quill Award, American Business Press.
Watson, Jr., was born in the period while his father was a sales manager at the National Cash Register Corporation but, by the time he had graduated from Brown