[Shadow_Group] The Godfather of the Hybrid

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http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/EandS/articles/LXVII3/wouk.html
 

Born in the South Bronx in New York City in 1919, Victor Wouk earned his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1939 before heading west for graduate school. In choosing between Stanford and Caltech, he picked Caltech because, as he said recently, it had open-book exams. Drawn to Caltech’s state-of-the-art High Voltage Lab—the first such laboratory in the country—Wouk received his MS in electrical engineering in 1940 and his PhD in 1942. His first company, Beta Electric Corporation, which he formed in 1946, grew to become in a decade the largest manufacturer of high-voltage power supplies. Then he went on to found other companies, leading to an interest in and then a passion for electric and hybrid automobiles. He holds more than 10 patents, most of them on various features of electric and hybrid vehicles.

He was.... http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/EandS/articles/LXVII3/wouk.html




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