Thomas Haug

Thomas Haug in February 2013

Thomas Haug (born April 26, 1927 in Bærum , Norway ) is a Norwegian engineer and pioneer of digital mobile communications technology. He was significantly involved in the development and specification of GSM .

Life

Haug studied electrical engineering at the Norwegian Technical University in Trondheim from 1950 to 1953 . Later (1973) he received a license as an engineer at the Royal Technical University in Stockholm. From 1954 to 1957 he was at Ericsson in Stockholm, where he worked on pulse technology and microwave links, and from 1957 to 1960 at Westinghouse Electric Corporation , where he developed radar devices. From 1960 to 1966 he was with the Facit Corporation in Stockholm, where he worked on computer peripherals such as printers and punch card punches and on magnetic core memories, and from 1966 until his retirement in 1992 he worked for the Swedish Telecom (PTS) in Stockholm, with the he was in charge of the development of the Nordic Mobile Telephone System (Nordisk Handyi, NMT) and was secretary of its committee from 1970 to 1978 and from 1978 to 1982 chairman of the NTM committee. NMT was developed on the basis of the previously developed systems MTA, MTB and MTD and opened in Sweden in 1981. Afterwards he was involved in the development of the European GSM system and was chairman of the CEPT / GSM committee from 1982 to 1992 . After his retirement he worked as a consultant.

In 2013, he and other mobile communications pioneers such as Joel S. Engel and Richard H. Frenkiel received the Charles Stark Draper Prize . In 1997 he was awarded with January Uddenfeldt and Heikki Huttunen the Technology Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation , in 1987 the gold medal of the Swedish Academy of Engineering in 1993 and the Philipp-Reis plaque .

Web links

• Thomas Haug's biography on nae.edu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Haug on gsma.com (PDF; 5.0 MB)
2. ↑ Technology Prize to Haug