William Hewlett Death
William passed away on January 12, 2001 at the age of 87 in Portola Valley, CA. William's cause of death was heart failure.
When did William Hewlett die?
January 12, 2001How did William Hewlett die? What was the cause of death?
Heart failureHow old was William Hewlett when died?
87Where did William Hewlett die? What was the location of death?
Portola Valley, CA
William Hewlett Birthday and Date of Death
William Hewlett was born on May 20, 1913 and died on January 12, 2001. William was 87 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: May 20, 1913
Date of Death: January 12, 2001
Age at Death: 87
William Hewlett - Biography
William "Bill" Redington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan where his father taught at the University of Michigan Medical School. In 1916 the family moved to San Francisco after his father, Albion Walter Hewlett, took a similar position at Stanford Medical School, located at the time in San Francisco. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father who had died of a brain tumor in 1925.Hewlett received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, an Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1936, and the degree of Electrical Engineer from Stanford in 1939. He joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity during his time at Stanford. In 1999, the William R. Hewlett Teaching Center at Stanford was named in his honor. The building is located in the Science and Engineering Quad, adjacent to the David Packard Electrical Engineering Building.Hewlett attended undergraduate classes taught by Fred Terman at Stanford and became acquainted with David Packard. He and Packard began discussing forming a company in August 1937, and founded Hewlett-Packard Company as a partnership on January 1, 1939. A flip of a coin decided the ordering of their names. The company incorporated in 1947 and tendered an initial public offering in 1957. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were very proud of their company culture which came to be known as the HP Way. The HP Way was a corporate culture that was not only centered on making money but respected and nurtured its employees. Hewlett was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1954. Also in 1939 he married Flora Lamson Hewlett, and the couple eventually had five children: Eleanor, Walter, James, William and Mary. There are 12 grandchildren.He was President of HP from 1964 to 1977, and served as CEO from 1968 to 1978, when he was succeeded by John A. Young. He remained chairman of the executive committee until 1983, and then served as vice chairman of the board until 1987.A young Steve Jobs, then in grade nine, had called up Hewlett requesting a part for a frequency counter that he was building. Hewlett was impressed with Jobs' gumption and offered him a summer job. Jobs then considered HP one of the companies that he admired, regarding it among the handful of companies (Disney and Intel were the others) that were built “to last, not just to make money”.
