Biography:Leopold B. Felsen

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Leopold B. Felsen[1] (born in Munich in 1924; died in the US September 24, 2005) was a physicist known for studies of Electromagnetism and wave-based disciplines. He had to flee Germany at 16 due to the Nazis.[2] He has fundamental contributions to electromagnetic field analysis.

Academic life

Leopold B. Felsen was a professor at Polytechnic University of New York[3] and at Boston University College of Engineering, an IEEE life fellow and a fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the Optical Society of America.[citation needed] He earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from what was then the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.[4]

Awards

In 1991 he won the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal.[5][6]

Publications

  • Leopold B. Felsen, and Nathan Marcuvitz, Radiation and scattering of waves, (1994), 888 pages.

References

  1. Dr. Leopold B. Felsen elected in 1977 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for his contributions to Contributions to the theory and application of microwave propagation in complex media and for leadership in engineering education.
  2. New York Times
  3. nyu.edu, 2006-05-04
  4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501282.html
  5. Recipients of the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  6. IEEE site