Arthur Kohlenberg

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Arthur Kohlenberg (born April 23, 1924 , † July 19, 1970 ) was an American physicist and information theorist.

Life

Arthur Kohlenberg received his Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Columbia University at the age of 19. He then went to the army for three years, where he held the rank of officer . He then continued his studies at Harvard University and received his doctorate in 1950. He then taught quantum mechanics at Boston University for two years and did research in the field of optical signal processing. He then moved to the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There he made contributions to the sampling theorem for bandpass signals and the zero crossing problem , which are still often cited today.

In 1962 he co-founded the Codex Corporation (Newton, Massachusetts), a manufacturer of modems . A QAM modulation was used for this. Kohlberg also brought forward error correction to widespread use.

From September 1960 to April 1964 he was editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory .

He died in 1970 of Hodgkin's lymphoma .

Publications

  • Arthur Kohlenberg: Exact interpolation of band-limited functions . 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Kohlenberg. Ancientfaces, accessed March 8, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Gallager, R. Massey, J .; Forney, G., Jr .: Arthur Kohlenberg 1924-1970 . In: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory . No. 17.2 , March 1971, p. 126 ( ieee.org [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Kohlberg, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and information theorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1924
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1970