Edward Lawry Norton

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Edward Lawry Norton (born July 28, 1898 in Rockland , Maine , USA; † January 28, 1983 in Chatham , New Jersey , USA) was an American electronics engineer . He is the namesake of Norton's theorem .

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Norton served as a radio operator in the United States Navy between 1917 and 1919 . He studied at the University of Maine and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1922 . In 1922 he started at Western Electric Corporation in New York City . In 1925 he earned his diploma from Columbia University . In 1925 he moved to Bell Labs . Norton retired in 1961.

In 1926, Edward Lawry Norton described in an internal report by Bell Labs the conversion of replacement voltage sources ( Thévenin equivalent ) to replacement power sources ( Norton equivalent ). This transformation was also discovered in November 1926 by Hans Ferdinand Mayer , a German mathematician and physicist, and published in an article in the journal Telegraphen- und Fernsprech-Technik . This transformation is now known as Norton's theorem .

Norton has published three technical articles and holds 18 patents. None of his patents or articles mention the equivalent circuit that is associated with him.

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SURNAME Norton, Edward Lawry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norton, Edward L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electronics engineer, namesake of Norton's theorem
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockland , Maine , USA
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1983
Place of death Chatham , New Jersey , USA