Henri Busignies

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Henri Gaston Busignies (born December 29, 1905 in Sceaux , † June 20, 1981 in Antibes ) was a French-American engineer and inventor. He was an important pioneer in radar technology and radio navigation and the holder of over 140 patents. Together with Maurice Deloraine , he developed the Huff-Duff shortwave direction finder, among other things .

Busignies was interested in amateur radio from an early age . He graduated from Jules Ferry College in Versailles and successfully passed the diploma examination in electrical engineering at the Institute Normal Electro Technique in Paris in 1926 . In doing so, he immediately obtained his first patent for a radio compass .

His professional career began in 1928 in the Paris Laboratories (LMT) of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT), where he developed devices for radio direction finding and radio navigation as well as the first RADAR devices until he emigrated to the USA in 1940 . The first practical demonstration of his devices took place in 1936 with the first automatically guided flight from Paris to Réunion .

With the beginning of the Second World War he was significantly involved in the development of the automatic radio direction finder HF / DF ("Huff-Duff") for locating German submarines and later also in the development of RADAR devices for the detection of moving targets Moving Target Indication (MTI ).

In the following years he made important contributions to the development of important systems and technologies, such as the

In the course of his career, Busignies rose to the position of vice president of ITT in 1960 and then retired as chief scientist of his company in 1975.

Busignies has received a number of awards and honors. Among other things, he was a Fellow of the IEEE , honorary doctorates from the Newark College of Engineering (1958) and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (1971), received the IEEE Award for International Communication (1969), the IEEE Edison Medal (1977), the Armstrong Medal from the Radio Club of America; and the Medal from the Industrial Research Institute . He had been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1966 and was chairman of various committees.

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SURNAME Busignies, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busignies, Henri Gaston (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-American electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Sceaux
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1981
Place of death Antibes