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Joseph J. Jacobs (1916–2004) was an American chemical engineer who founded Jacobs Engineering Group, a large engineering and construction company. [1] Born into a Syrian immigrant family, he earned degrees in chemical engineering from the New York University Tan don School of Engineering.
Oct 30, 2004 · Joseph J. Jacobs, the chairman and founder of the Jacobs Engineering Group, one of the world's largest engineering and construction companies, died on Oct. 23. He was 88. The company...
Oct 27, 2004 · Joseph J. Jacobs, chairman and founder of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms, died Saturday in Pasadena. He was 88.
Oct 26, 2004 · Joseph J. Jacobs, the 88-year-old founder and current chairman of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., died Oct. 23. He founded the Pasadena, Califl.-based global engineering and construction company...
Dr. Joseph J. Jacobs speaks about his Brooklyn roots, Lebanese heritage, and the American Dream at the groundbreaking ceremony for the building named in his honor at Brooklyn's Polytechnic...
Feb 10, 2024 · Joseph J. Jacobs founded Jacobs Architecture as a one-person consulting engineering business based in Pasadena, California. Jacobs was an American chemical engineer who had previously worked at companies like Merck, developing mass-production techniques for penicillin and DDT.
Mar 16, 1993 · WHEN Dr. Joseph J. Jacobs started out as the director of the new Office of Alternative Medicine late last fall, he had a giddily adventurous way of describing his mission. He was an...
JACOBS: I'm the youngest of seven children of immigrant parents who came from Lebanon. My father [Joseph J. Jacobs] came in 1886 and my mother [Afiffi Forzley] a few years later. My father was sixteen years old and hardly educated even in Arabic, but learned English after he came. My mother was quite a bit younger than my father.
Jacobs, a first-generation son of Lebanese immigrants spent most of his formative years in Brooklyn, New York. He attributes much of his success to the lessons he learned there, as they impressed upon him the importance of family, education, perserverence, and self sufficiency.
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Construction services provider Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. late Monday said that its founder and chairman, Joseph J. Jacobs, died...
