During elementary school, he was driven by chauffeur to William Penn Charter School, and in high school joined the Engineer's Club of Philadelphia and spent afternoons at the electronics laboratory of television inventor Philo Farnsworth in Chestnut Hill.
Philo Farnsworth, the father of television and an Idaho native, was present as the station signed on the air.
The award is named after the inventor of electronic television, Philo Farnsworth.
Philo | Kyle Farnsworth | Philo Farnsworth | Philo Vance | Philo Cramer | Farnsworth House | William Philo Clark | Philo White | Philo Wallace | Philo, Illinois | Philo Gubb | Lucius Veturius Philo | Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois) | Eddie Farnsworth | Christopher Farnsworth | Charles S. Farnsworth | Calling Philo Vance | Bill Farnsworth |