Background
Finnigan, Robert Emmet was born on May 27, 1927 in Buffalo. Son of Charles M. and Marie F. (Jacobs) Finnigan.
Finnigan, Robert Emmet was born on May 27, 1927 in Buffalo. Son of Charles M. and Marie F. (Jacobs) Finnigan.
Bachelor of Science, United States Naval Academy, 1949; Master of Science, University of Illinois, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, 1957.
Commissioned Lieutenant, United States Air Force, 1949;
advanced through grades to captain, United States Air Force, 1954;
senior scientist, Livermore Laboratory, University of California, 1959;
senior scientist, University of California Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 1957-1962;
senior research scientist, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, 1962-1963;
director, Electronic Associations Inc., Palo Alto, California, 1963-1967;
founder, vice chairman, senior vice president, Finnigan Corporation, San Jose, California, 1967-1992;
vice chairman emeritus, consultant, Finnigan Corporation, San Jose, California, since 1992. Consultant Thermo Instrument Sys., Santa Fe, since 1992. Member panel NAS, Washington, 1986-1989.
Board directors Strategic Diagnostics, Inc., Newark, Delaware, Thermo Spectra Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts. Advisor to Environmental Technology Fund, Hambrecht and Quist, San Francisco.
Chairman, co-founder United States National Working Group on Pollution, International Organization for Legal Metrology, Washington, 1982-1987. Member president's council, University Illinois, Urbana, since 2002. Member board overseers Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, since 2005.
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior ), American Society Mass Spectrometry (board directors), American Electronic Association (board directors 1982-1984, 87, chairman, co-founder environmental and occupational health committee), United States Naval Academy Alumni Association (president's circuit since 1996), Sigma Xi.
Married Bette E. van Horn, April 1, 1950. Children: Michael, Patrick, Robert E. Junior, Joan, Shawn, Thomas, Matthew.