Certificate No. 1 of TXN (symbol for Texas Instruments at the New York Stock Exchange) is the property of J. Erik Jonsson and has been since October 1, 1953, when trading began in TI common. TI - chartered in 1930 as Geophysical Service Inc., and renamed in 1950, when wholly owned GSI subsidiaries were formed - would have never appeared on the ticker tapes had it not been for Jonsson's fundamental decision to involve GSI in military electronics. mssu.edu
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Jonsson began working at an early age to help support his Swedish immigrant family. In 1930 he joined Geophysical Service Inc., a firm destined to become Texas Instruments. Under Jonsson’s guidance, outstanding research and development led to the compan www.rpi.edu/about/hof/jonsson.html
J. Erik Jonsson , a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who had been extraordinarily successful in business and education (as founder of Texas Instruments, as a trustee of the Hockaday School, RPI, and the Graduate Research Center of the Southwes www.skidmore.edu/centennial/jonsson.htm
