Chubb was born in
Fort Yates,
Dakota Territory in 1882, the son of army officer Charles St. John Chubb and Sarah L. (Eaton) Chubb.[3] He was raised in multiple army posts of the West, where "Indian uprisings were still flickering along the vanishing frontier."[4]
In 1905 Chubb obtained his MSc from
Ohio State University, and started his lifelong career at
Westinghouse Electric Corporation as apprentice in research, development and testing. By 1920 he directed the radio engineering department,[1] and from 1930 until his retirement in 1948 he was research director of the Director of Research.[5]
Chubb was granted 150 patents. He was awarded the honorary doctor of science by the
Allegheny College, and by the
University of Pittsburgh. The Ohio State University awarded him the Benjamin G. Lamme Meritorious Achievement Medal, and in 1947 he was awarded the
John Fritz Medal.[1]
Selected publications
Lewis Warrington Chubb. The world within the atom : how scientists explored the atom and learned to release its energy, 1950.