Peter J. Gibson

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Peter J. Gibson (* December 1934 in Gillingham , † 2010 ) was a British microwaves - engineering . The Vivaldi antenna is one of his most famous developments .

Life

Planar Vivaldi antenna

Peter Gibson attended the Technical School in Chatham when he was 11 years old and then, now 16, went to the Chatham Dockyard shipyard there , where he received a five-year vocational training course in electrical engineering . At the age of 21 he moved to the Mullard research laboratories in Redhill and studied part-time for five years at Croydon College in the southern London borough of Croydon . Upon completion there, he was chartered as an engineer .

At that time, the Mullard research laboratories belonged to the Dutch global company Philips , with which Gibson stayed for almost his entire professional life. In 1977 these were renamed the Philips Research Laboratories Redhill. He mostly worked on the development of microwave assemblies, especially on microwave antennas. This led him to invent the “Vivaldi antenna” in 1978, as he called it a year later in his publication The Vivaldi Aerial , presented at the European Microwave Conference in Brighton . Why Peter Gibson called this planar microwave antenna that is not fully understood. He himself did not leave a written declaration. However, a friend and former colleague who worked with him in the research laboratory in the 1980s and stayed in contact with him until his death reports:

Trumpet, horn loudspeaker (as in the picture) and Peter Gibson's Vivaldi antenna have important analogies such as exponential shape of the boundary and similar wave radiation

“Peter was really into music, composing pieces, teaching piano in those days and was a church organist. He told me that he called the tapered slot antenna a “Vivaldi” as it looked like the cross-section of an early trumpet. Vivaldi had written a trumpet concerto, and it was the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi's birth in 1678. Anyway, that was Peter's own explanation of why he gave the name. ”

“Peter [Gibson] was really interested in music at the time, composed music, gave piano lessons and was a church organist. He told me that he called the adapted slot antenna "Vivaldi" because it looked like the cross-section of an early trumpet . Vivaldi had written a trumpet concerto, and it [the year 1978 that this antenna was developed] was the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi's birth in 1678. However, that was Peter's own explanation for the naming. "

- Peter

In the following years, Peter Gibson continued to deal intensively with microwave antennas and also wrote other publications on this topic. Classical music was one of his non-professional interests. He lived in Crawley and after his death in 2010 left behind his wife, Pat.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on Microwaves 101.com (English). Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ Vivaldi antenna on Microwaves 101.com (English). Retrieved April 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gibson, Peter J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British microwave engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Gillingham
DATE OF DEATH 2010