Jacob Millman
Jacob Millman (born May 17, 1911 in Novohrad-Volynskyi , Ukraine , † May 22, 1991 in Longboat Key , Florida ) was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University .
Jacob Millman's parents emigrated to the USA in 1913, where he obtained a Ph.D. received at MIT . He began his career at Columbia University in 1951 and retired in 1975. Between 1941 and 1987 Millman wrote eight books on electrical engineering. His obituary was published in the New York Times on May 24, 1991 .
The set of Millman is named after him, these are to a material used in the electrical circuitry art, based on the Kirchhoff's rules to operate at a parallel circuit of a plurality of voltage and current sources to determine the sum voltage formed therefrom.
In 1970 Millman received the IEEE Education Medal .
Works
- Jacob Millman, together with Herbert Taub: Pulse and Digital Circuits . McGraw-Hill, 1956 ( online ).
- Jacob Millman, together with Herbert Taub: Pulse Digital and Switching Waveforms . McGraw-Hill, 1965 ( online ).
literature
- IRE Directory: A Year Book Containing a Radi Engineers' Directory, a List of Firms and Products. Institute of Radio Engineers, New York, 1958, pp. 45, 49.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal Recipients . IEEE. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Millman, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Novohrad-Volynskyi , Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1991 |
| Place of death | Longboat Key , Florida |