Ernst Guillemin

Ernst Adolph Guillemin ( born May 8, 1898 in Milwaukee, † April 1, 1970 ) was an American electrical engineer.

Guillemin studied electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin -Madison with a bachelor 's degree in 1922 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Master 's degree in 1924. Afterwards he was at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, where he in 1926 at Arnold Sommerfeld was a PhD (Theory of frequency multiplication by iron core coupling). Then he was back at MIT, where he was an assistant professor in 1928, associate professor in 1936 and professor in 1944. During World War II he worked a lot at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and received for his war work, 1948, the Certificate of Merit of the U.S. president. From 1960 he was Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and in 1963 he became Professor Emeritus.

At MIT, he dealt primarily with telecommunications engineering, network and circuit theory, telephone networks and filter theory.

His doctoral include Robert Fano and Thomas Stockham and his students Sidney Darlington and William Hewlett. He was considered an excellent teacher.

In 1961 he received the IRE Medal of Honor and he was a Fellow of the IRE and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Writings

• Communication Networks, 2 volumes, Wiley 1931, 1935
• Introductory Circuit Theory, Wiley, 1955
• Theory of linear physical systems, Wiley 1963
• Synthesis of Passive Networks: Theory and Methods Appropriate to the Realization and approximation problem, Wiley, 1962, 1967
• The Mathematics of Circuit Analysis, MIT 1944, 1969