Ronold WP King

Ronold Wyeth Percival King (born September 19, 1905 in Williamstown , Massachusetts , † April 10, 2006 ) was an American applied physicist known for his contributions to antenna theory.

Ronold King was the son of a German professor and grew up in Rochester , New York . He studied physics at the University of Rochester with a bachelor's degree in 1927 and a master's degree in 1929, was an exchange student in Munich in 1928/29, was at Cornell University in 1929/30 and was at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1932 with Edward Bennett with a dissertation on electronics. Then he was there assistant and from 1934 instructor and assistant professor at Lafayette College . From 1938 he was an instructor, from 1939 assistant professor, from 1942 associate professor and from 1946 professor at Harvard University . He became Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and retired in 1972. After that he lived in Winchester .

In 1937 and 1958 he was a Guggenheim Fellow abroad.

From the 1940s he developed the theory of cylindrical radio and microwave antennas. He also examined the scattering, diffraction and propagation of electromagnetic waves in various geometries and materials. He invented the PIF antenna , which is widely used in cellular devices and which he developed for the telemetry of missiles.

Tai Tsun Wu is one of his PhD students . He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the IEEE (Life Fellow) and the American Physical Society . In 1986 he received the Harold Pender Award and in 1985 the Centennial Medal of the IEEE.

Fonts

• Electromagnetic engineering , McGraw Hill 1945
• with Harry R. Mimno, Alexander H. Wing: Transmission lines, antennas and wave guides , McGraw Hill 1945, Dover 1965
• Transmission-line theory , McGraw Hill 1955
• Theory of linear antennas , Oxford University Press, 1956
• Quasi-stationary and nonstationary currents in electric circuits , in: Handbuch der Physik 4/16 (Electromagnetic Fields and Waves), Springer 1958
• with Tai Tsun Wu: The scattering and diffraction of waves , Oxford University Press, 1959
• with Charles Harrison: Antennas and waves, a modern approach , MIT Press, 1969
• Tables of Antenna Characteristics , Springer 1971
• with Richard B. Mack, Sheldon Sandler: Arrays of cylindrical dipoles , Cambridge University Press 1968
• with Glenn S. Smith: Antennas in matter , MIT Press, 1981
• with Sheila Prasad: Fundamental electromagnetic theory and applications , Prentice-Hall, 1986
• with Margaret Owens, Tai Tsun Wu: Lateral Electromagnetic Waves: Theory and Applications to Communications, Geophysical Exploration, and Remote Sensing , Springer 1992
• with George Fikioris, Richard B. Mack: Cylindrical Antennas and Arrays , Cambridge University Press, 2002
• A man of the 20th century (autobiography)

Web links

• Sixty years at Harvard: the career of Professor Ronold WP King , IEEE Xplore August 7, 2001