Ernst Guillemin

Ernst Adolph Guillemin (born May 8, 1898 in Milwaukee , † April 1, 1970 ) was an American electrical engineer.

Guillemin studied electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a bachelor's degree in 1922 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a master's degree in 1924. He then went to the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , where he worked with Arnold in 1926 Sommerfeld did his doctorate (theory of frequency multiplication by iron core coupling). Then he was back at MIT, where he was Assistant Professor in 1928, Associate Professor in 1936 and Professor in 1944. During World War II he worked a lot at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and received the US President's Certificate of Merit in 1948 for his war work. From 1960 he was Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and in 1963 he was retired.

At MIT, he mainly dealt with telecommunications, network and circuit theory, telephone networks and filter theory.

His graduate students include Robert Fano and Thomas Stockham, and his undergraduates are Sidney Darlington and William Hewlett . He was considered an excellent teacher.

In 1961 he received the IRE Medal of Honor and he was a fellow of the IRE and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers . He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1955).

Fonts

• Communication Networks, 2 volumes, Wiley 1931, 1935
• Introductory Circuit Theory, Wiley 1955
• Theory of linear physical systems, Wiley 1963
• Synthesis of Passive Networks: Theory and Methods Appropriate to the Realization and Approximation Problems, Wiley 1962, 1967
• The Mathematics of Circuit Analysis, MIT 1944, 1969

Web links

• IEEE Global History Network

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Guillemin in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)