"For example, one of the key American scientific public intellectuals of World War II was Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) of MIT. He co-founded Raytheon in 1922, which is a giant defense contractor today. He was dean of MIT school of engineering in the 1930s, and during WWII was more or less the top scientific advisor of the war effort, pushing for the Manhattan Project and much else. "

https://www.unz.com/isteve/mentor-and-protege-lookalikes-vannevar-bush-and-claude-shannon/