Leopold B. Felsen
Leopold B. Felsen (born May 7, 1924 in Munich , † September 24, 2005 in Boston ) was an American scientist of German origin. Felsen pioneered the "theory of electromagnetic fields".
Felsen had lived in the United States since the late 1930s . He studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Electrical Engineering and received his doctorate there in 1952. He later became a professor at the Polytechnic University of Brooklyn , was retired until he 1,994th He then taught at Boston University on topics in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. In total, he published over 350 books and other publications. His work Radiation and the Scattering of Waves is considered to be groundbreaking in antenna technology and the propagation of electromagnetic waves . He also published poems on this and other scientific subjects in the Poet's Corner column he set up in an IEEE magazine.
Felsen received the Antenna and Propagation Society's Best Paper Award in 1969 , the Baltasar van der Pol gold medal in 1975 and the IEEE Heinrich Hertz gold medal in 1991 . In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich .
Web links
- Literature by and about Leopold B. Felsen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical article from the Technical University of Munich
- Leopold Felsen on www.ieee.org
- New York Times obituary of October 10, 2005
- Obituary on timesonline.co.uk
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| SURNAME | Felsen, Leopold B. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 2005 |
| Place of death | Boston |