Marcel JE Golay

Marcel Jules Edouard Golay (born May 3, 1902 in Neuchâtel ; † April 27, 1989 ) was a Swiss electrical engineer who applied mathematics to military and industrial problems.

Career

Golay studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and went to Bell Laboratories in New York in 1924 . 1931 Golay got a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago . He left Bell Laboratories to join the US Army Signal Corps and was stationed at Fort Monmouth , New Jersey . In 1963 he moved to the PerkinElmer company .

In particular due to his half-page article Notes on digital coding from 1949, Golay is considered to be a co-founder of algebraic coding theory . The photos of the probes of the Voyager program were sent to earth with Golay coding, later a corresponding transmission type called G-TOR was developed in amateur radio .

He also worked on the development of gas chromatography . Golay invented capillary gas chromatography , the most commonly used separation technique today. In memory of Golay, the PerkinElmer company continues to present the Golay Award for services to chromatography.

Services

Together with Abraham Savitzky author of the Savitzky-Golay-Filter ( English Savitzky – Golay smoothing filter ).
Development of the Golay Code .
Generalization of the perfect binary Hamming code to non-binary codes .
Inventor of the Golay cell , an infrared - detector .
a zone melting process for silicon with Paul H. Keck
Inventor of capillary gas chromatography

Individual evidence

↑ Golay: Notes on digital coding . In: Proc. IRE , Volume 37, 1949, p. 657, maths.manchester.ac.uk ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ HF Digital Handbook . ARRL, Newington CT 2007, Chapter 10.
↑ Marcel JE Golay (chemist). In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Accessed January 31, 2020 (English).
↑ PerkinElmer: Golay and Ettre Award
↑ Abraham. Savitzky, MJE Golay: Smoothing and Differentiation of Data by Simplified Least Squares Procedures. In: Analytical Chemistry . tape 36 , no. 8 , June 1, 1964, pp. 1627-1639 , doi : 10.1021 / ac60214a047 .
^ Keck, Golay: Crystallization of Silicon from a Floating Liquid Zone . In: Physical Review , Volume 89, 1953, p. 1297

personal data
SURNAME	Golay, Marcel JE
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Golay, Marcel Jules Edouard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuchâtel
DATE OF DEATH	April 27, 1989

[1] Golay: Notes on digital coding . In: Proc. IRE , Volume 37, 1949, p. 657, maths.manchester.ac.uk ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] HF Digital Handbook . ARRL, Newington CT 2007, Chapter 10.

[3] Marcel JE Golay (chemist). In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Accessed January 31, 2020 (English).

[4] PerkinElmer: Golay and Ettre Award

[5] Abraham. Savitzky, MJE Golay: Smoothing and Differentiation of Data by Simplified Least Squares Procedures. In: Analytical Chemistry . tape 36 , no. 8 , June 1, 1964, pp. 1627-1639 , doi : 10.1021 / ac60214a047 .

[6] Keck, Golay: Crystallization of Silicon from a Floating Liquid Zone . In: Physical Review , Volume 89, 1953, p. 1297