Vollum
Vollum is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Gerd Vollum (1920–2009), Norwegian politician *Howard Vollum (1913–1986), American engineer, scientist and philanthropist See also *Vollum Institute, a research institute in Portland, Oregon, United States *Vollum strain The Vollum strain is one of the 89 known strains of the anthrax bacterium (''Bacillus anthracis''). It is named Vollum after Roy Vollum, the Canadian-born bacteriologist who first isolated it from a cow in Oxford, England. The "Vollum 14578" strai ...

Howard Vollum
Charles Howard Vollum (May 31, 1913 – February 5, 1986) was an American electronics engineer, businessman, and philanthropist in Oregon, United States. He was the co-founder of Tektronix Corporation, and endowed the Vollum Institute. Background Howard Vollum was born on May 31, 1913, in Portland, Oregon. He attended Portland's Catholic Columbia University (now University of Portland) from 1931 to 1933, then transferred to Reed College in 1934, where, in 1936, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics. His undergraduate thesis was the creation of a new kind of cathode-ray oscilloscope. Upon graduation from college, he spent several years servicing and installing radios and experimenting with electronic devices. From 1940 to 1941 he was Supervisor of the Radio Project, National Youth Administration, in Portland. Vollum served as an officer in the United States Army Signal Corps (United States Army), Signal Corps from 1942 to 1946, serving in England and New Jersey on art ...
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