James E. West was born on February ,10 1931.West was born in Prince Edward County,Virginia.While attending Temple University,he interned at Bell Labs.During his summer breaks and upon his graduation in 1957 he joined the company and began work in electroacoustics,physical acoustics and architectural acoustics.West, who ois a fellow of IEEE and recipient of the George R.Stibitz Trophy,is the recipient of over 200 U.S. and foreign patents.He is also the leader of a program aimed at a minority High School students,encouraging them to experience science with the assistance of mentors at Bell Labs.

1. In 1962, James West and Gerhard Sessler patented the electret microphone while working at Bell Laboratories.In the electret microphone, thin sheets of polymer electret film are metal-coated on one side to form the membrane of the movable plate capacitor that converts sound to electrical signals with high fidelity.The microphone became widely used because of it's high performance, accuracy and reliability.In addition, to it's low coast,small size and light weight.90% of todays microphone's are electret microphone's and they are used in everyday items such as telephones,camcorders and tape recorders.The electret microphone patent # is 3,118,022.James Edward West now works with John Hopkins University as a research professor.

 

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