Biography - A. G. Clavier

A. G. Clavier was born in France in 1894. He graduated at the Sorbonne as "Licencie en Sciences Physiques et Mathématiques" and received the diploma of Electrical Engineer from the Ecole Superieure d' Electricité (Paris) in 1920. He started his career of radio research as the head of one of the Laboratories of the French Signal Corps, in charge of military developments in the higher part of the radio-frequency spectrum. He was a member of the French jury supervising the famous amateur contest in 1923 for short-wave transatlantic qomrnunication. He was Secretary of the Redaction of "Onde Electrique" during its first years of existence (1922-1925).     

Biography - Eugene G. Fubini

Eugene G. Fubini (A'36-SM'46-F'54) was born on April 19, 1913 in Turin, Italy. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1933. Associated with the National Electric Institute of Italy from 1936 to 1938, he also worked prior to World War I, in the Short-Wave Division, General Engineering Department, of the Columbia Broadcasting System.     

Biography - Seymour B. Cohn

Seymour B. Cohn (S'41-A'44-M'46-SM'51-F'59) was born in Stamford, Conn., on October 21, 1920. After receiving the B. E. degree in electrical engineering from Yale University, New Haven, Conn., in 1942, he worked for the Radio Research Laboratory of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., specializing in UHF and microwave receivers, circuits, and filters. In 1944 he represented the Radio Research Laboratory as a technical observer with the U. S. Air Force in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Following the disbanding of the Radio Research Laboratory at the end of 1945, he enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard University and was awarded the M.S. degree in communication engineering in 1946, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering science and applied physics in 1948.     

Biography - E. L. Ginzton

Born in Russia in 1915, in Ekaterinoslav, now Dnepropetrovsk, Edward L. Ginzton came to the United States when he was 13. He attended the University of California, receiving the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering. With the encouragement and assistance of Dr. F. E. Terman, he transferred to Stanford University for graduate work in radio engineering, receiving the E.E. degree in 1938 and the Ph.D. degree in 1940, after specializing in the study of negative feedback and the theory and application of stabilized negative impedances.     

Biography - Wilbur L. Pritchard

Wilbur L. Pritchard (A'45-M'48-SM'52) was born in New York, N.Y., on May 31, 1923. He received the B.E.E. degree in 1943 from the College of the City of New York. From 1948 to 1951 he was gaged in part-time graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.     

Biography - Wilmer L. Barrow

Wilmer L. Barrow is Vice-President for Research and Development of the Sperry Gyroscope Company, following previous appointments as Sperry's Chief Engineer in 1947 and as Vice-President in 1952. Formerly, he was on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology under wartime emergency as Director of Fire Control in 1943, and Director of Armament Engineering in 1945.     

Biography - J. R. Whinnery

John R. Whinnery was born on July 26, 1916 in Read, Colo. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California in 1937, and immediately went to work for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, N.Y. At the General Electric Company, Mr. Whinnery entered the three-year Advanced Engineering Program, and following that, supervised the high-frequency part of that program for two years. He then worked in the Electronics Laboratory and the Research Laboratory on problems in velocity-modulation tubes, traveling-wave tubes, and disk-seal triodes. In 1945-1946 he was also part-time lecturer in Union College.     

Biography - Henry J. Riblet

Henry J. Riblet (A'45-M'55-F'58) was born on July 21, 1913, in Calgary, Can. He graduated from Yale University, New Haven, Corm., with the B.S. degree in mathematics in 1935. He received the M.A. and the Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Yale in 1937 and 1939, respectively.     

Biography - Alfred C. Beck

Alfred C. Beck was born in Granville, N. Y., on July 26, 1905. He received the E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1927. During the summers of 1926 and 1927 he worked in the Test Department of the New York Edison Company on various electric power projects, and through the academic year, 1927-1928, he was an instructor in mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Graduate courses in communications during that year, and experience as a radio amateur (W2AGG), convinced him that his interests were along the lines of radio communication.     

Biography - A. Gardner Fox

A. Gardner Fox (A'40-SM'45-F'56) was born in Syracuse, N. Y. on November 22, 1912. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1935.     

Biography - Ernst Weber

Dr. Weber was born in Vienna, Austria, on September 6, 1901, and received all his education there. He was graduated with the diploma of Electrical Engineer from the Technical University in Vienna in 1924, and joined the Austrian Siemens-Schuckert Company as research engineer. On the basis of several papers on field theory applied to machinery, he received the degree of Sc.D. from the Technical University in Vienna in 1927.     

Biography - Nathan Marcuvitz

Nathan Marcuvitz was born on December 29, 1913, in New York, N. Y. In 1935 he received the Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where he remained as a graduate fellow until 1936. At this time, he joined the RCA Laboratories as a student engineer and subsequently did advanced development work on electron tubes, iconoscopes, and orthicons for television applications. He returned to the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1940, where he received the Master's degree in 1941.     

Biography - Clarence Lester Hogan

Clarence Lester Hogan was born on February 8, 1920, in Great Falls, Mont. He received the B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Montana State College in 1942. While an undergraduate he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi and received two awards: the American Chemical Society Award, based on an election by the faculty and student body, and given to a junior student showing great promise for professional development, and the Montana Society of Engineers Gold Medal, given to the most outstanding senior in the College of Engineering. Among his extra curricular activities were the offices of editor-in-chief of the college publication, The Maztana Engineer, and vice-president of Kappa Sigma.     

Biography - William Walden Mumford

Born at Vancouver, Washington, on June 17, 1905. Mr. Mumford majored in physics and mathematics at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, receiving the A.B. degree in 1930. He at once joined the Technical Staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories with the Radio Research Department at Holmdel, N. J. He has worked on ultra short-wave propagation and microwave components for radio relay systems and radars. Mr. Mumford's contributions in the microwave field include the directional coupler, wideband coaxial to waveguide transducers, helix to waveguide transitions as used in the traveling-wave tube and the gas-discharge noise generator. These are covered in fifteen published papers and nine patents.     

Biography - George Clark Southworth

Born at Little Cooley, Pennsylvania, on August 24, 1890, Dr. Southworth did undergraduate work at Grove City College and graduate work at Columbia and Yale. Then for ten years he was a teacher and for many more years a research worker on the various frequency frontiers of radio. Beginning with experimental work at Grove City College prior to World War I and continuing with research work at the Bureau of Standards and Yale University during World War I, he has been with the Bell System since 1923. He is the author of a score or more of scientific papers on such diversified subjects as ultrashort waves, the dielectric properties of water at ultrahigh frequencies, radio wave propagation, antenna arrays, earth currents, and radio astronomy, as well as that for which he is best known, waveguides. His work culminated in 1950 in a 675-page textbook on microwave techniques, " Principles and Applications of Waveguide Transmission."     

Biography - Lan Jen Chu

Lan Jen Chu was Hweiying, Kiangsu, born on August 24, 1913 in China. He graduated from Chiao Tung University, Shanghai, China with the B.S. degree in electrical power in 1934. He received the S.M. degree in 1935 and the SC. D. in electrical engineering from M.I.T. in 1938.     

Biography - Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff

Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff was born in Russia in 1897. In the early years of his primary and secondary education he was interested in almost everything except mathematics which he would not have passed at all if it were not for the kindness of his teachers.