Ronald Martin Foster

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Ronald Martin Foster (born October 3, 1896 , † February 2, 1998 Belmar , Monmouth County , New Jersey ) was an American engineer who worked at Bell Labs on electronic filters for telephone lines. Its publication in 1924 A reactance theorem ( Reaktanztheorem ) inspired Wilhelm Cauer to its network synthesis.

He studied at Harvard and worked at AT&T (later Bell) on symbolic logic , Fourier integrals, and electrical network theory. From 1943 to 1963 he was a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn .

On April 12, 1924, he married Annabel Conover.

Individual evidence

  1. Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven person Page 898 - Ronald Martin Foster
  2. Foster reactance theorem in the English Wikipedia
  3. Gerhard Wunsch : Foundations of Process Theory. Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig / Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-519-06524-X . ( online )
  4. Rudolf Seising: The fuzzification of the systems. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08768-0 , p. 18. ( online )