Chauncey Guy Suits (March 12, 1905 - August 14, 1991) was a distinguished director of the General Electric (GE) Research Laboratory, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.
[1] Suits was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, studied physics and mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.
[2] He then began doctoral studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he had hoped to study under Wolfgang Pauli (who moved to Leipzig before he arrived), and completed his Doctor of Science in physics in 1929.
He then spent one additional year at Wisconsin before joining General Electric as a research physicist in 1930.
[4] In 1962, his leadership role at GE was recognized by the Industrial Research Institute by being presented with the IRI Medal.