Template:Featured/Ben-Ami Lipetz
Ben-Ami Lipetz (1927-2019) was born in Fargo, North Dakota, and grew up mostly in New York city. After a year in the US Navy he graduated in Mechanical engineering from Cornell in 1948. He then worked for the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island to help publish research reports concerning the peaceful applications of nuclear energy. In 1953 he worked for the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH, helping to establish the manufacture of titanium for the aeropspace industry. He also organized and managed the creation of an index to the 16 volume proceedings of the United Nation's First International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.
In 1959 he joined a new research and manufacturing company, Itek, in Lexington, MA, and was concerned with the creation and of science citation indexes. In the early 1960s Lipetz worked for the American Physical Society to determin whether to create a citation index for physics.