Background
Piore was born on 19 July 1908 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Piore was born on 19 July 1908 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Piore obtained an undergraduate and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics, both from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In 1917, his family moved to the United States, and in 1924, Emanuel Piore became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He worked at the Radio Corporation of America, the United States Navy (where he became the first civilian to head the Office of Naval Research) and, subsequently, the Avco Manufacturing Corporation, before being hired as the first Director of Research of International Business Machines Corporation. Under his direction, the architect Eero Saarinen designed and build the International Business Machines Corporation Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New New York As Director of Research at International Business Machines Corporation he encouraged basic research and the building up of a patent portfolio.
He also established the International Business Machines Corporation Fellow program, which allowed top researchers to pursue their own interests for a period of time.
In 1967, his leadership at International Business Machines Corporation was recognized by the Industrial Research Institute when it awarded him the illustrious International Republican Institute Meda Herman H. Goldstine and Ralph East. Gomory.
Biographical Memoirs: Emanual Ruben Piore. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145(3):359–363, September 2001.
Eli Ginsberg, editors
Science and Academic Life in Transition: Emanuel Piore. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, Rutgers—The State University, 1990.
He was promoted to vice president and group executive, and Chief Scientist and served International Business Machines Corporation as a member of the board of directors and of the advisory committee to the board.