Inspiring the next generation of innovators

The Barton L. Weller Foundation, Incorporated provides annual scholarships to local students based on an innovative independent research or study project, inspired by the work of Barton L Weller.

Barton L. Weller was born on February 17, 1916 in Seoul, Korea, to Methodist missionary parents. His father, Orville A. Weller, was an electrical engineering graduate of Ohio State University, who had been a power company executive before turning to missionary work.

Bart was educated in Denver, Colorado, and in 1938 he obtained a B.S. in Physics from the University of Colorado followed by a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a Research Assistant at the University of Colorado, he produced systems that generated an understanding of the then only known nuclear particles, cosmic rays. Later, as a Teaching Fellow at MIT, he wrote his Master’s thesis about flame barriers to stop anesthetic explosions in hospital operating rooms.

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