Leopold B. Felsen
Leopold B. Felsen[1] (born in Munich in 1924; died in the US September 24, 2005) was a physicist known for studies of Electromagnetism and wave-based disciplines. He had to flee Germany at 16 due to the Nazis.[2] He has fundamental contributions to electromagnetic field analysis.
Academic life[]
Leopold B. Felsen was a professor at Polytechnic University of New York[3] and at Boston University College of Engineering, an IEEE life fellow and a fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the Optical Society of America.[citation needed] He earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from what was then the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.[4]
Awards[]
In 1991 he won the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal.[5][6]
Publications[]
- Leopold B. Felsen, and Nathan Marcuvitz, Radiation and scattering of waves, (1994), 888 pages.
References[]
- ^ Dr. Leopold B. Felsen elected in 1977 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for his contributions to Contributions to the theory and application of microwave propagation in complex media and for leadership in engineering education.
- ^ New York Times
- ^ nyu.edu, 2006-05-04
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501282.html
- ^ Recipients of the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- ^ IEEE site
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