John Roy Whinnery
John Roy Whinnery ( born July 26, 1916 in Read, Colorado, † February 1, 2009 in Walnut Creek, California ) was an American electrical engineer.
Whinnery studied electrical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor 's degree in 1937, where he won the University Medal. In 1948 he received his doctorate there. During World War II he worked on microwave radar technology and at General Electric. From 1946 he was a lecturer and in 1952 professor at Berkeley, where he headed from 1952 to 1956, the Research Laboratory of Electronics and was from 1956 to 1959 Executive Board of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. From 1959 to 1963 he was dean of the engineering faculty. He was University Professor at Berkeley. In 1987, he went into retirement.
He also served 1951/52, research in microwave tubes at Hughes Aircraft and 1963/64, he conducted research after the discovery of the laser in this area at Bell Laboratories. In 1959, he worked as a Guggenheim Fellow at the ETH Zurich and a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Stanford. In addition to microwave technology ( discontinuities in waveguides, amplifier ( triode ), traveling wave tubes as the Backward Wave Amplifier) he dealt later with lasers, including ultra -short laser pulses.
Whinnery was IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the National Academy of Sciences ( 1972), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Engineering ( 1965). He received the IEEE Medal of Honor ( 1985) and the National Medal of Science ( 1992) and the Founders Award from the National Academy of Engineering, the Lamme Medal and the Berkeley Citation.
During the Apollo program, he was in the Science and Technology Committee on Manned Space Flight NASA.
He wrote poems, kelterte wine and played golf. Whinnery was married since 1944 and had three daughters.
Writings
- Simon Ramo: Field and Waves in Modern Radio, 1944, new editions as Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics