Paul Horowitz

Paul Horowitz ( born 1942 ) is an American physicist and electronics specialist. He is a professor in the Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University.

Horowitz was just eight radio amateur and studied physics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1965, her Master's degree in 1967 and his doctorate in 1970. He remained at Harvard University and dealt with Rastermikroskpieverfahren in X-rays ( X-ray microscopy ) and with protons with astrophysics (eg pulsars ) and Biophysics ( examination of the engine of the flagellar movements of E. coli). He was also active as an inventor with a focus on electronics (for example, automatic machines for election procedures, acoustic land mine detectors ).

From lectures on electronics, which he held since 1974, was a well-known textbook The Art of Electronics with Winfield Hill.

He is also a leading and avid representative of the SETI search for signals of extraterrestrial intelligence, where he used the 84 foot radio telescope at Harvard University, among others. Carl Sagan is one of the figures who created the novel Contact by his example, and he also worked with Sagan in SETI projects. In September 1988, he thought he had discovered 37 signals, for which he finds evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Addition, however, it also searches for pulsars and galaxies clusters in the early universe with the Arecibo Observatory.

He was a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group.

Writings

• With Winfield Hill: The Art of Electronics. Cambridge University Press, 1st edition 1980, 2nd edition 1989, 3rd edition 2013.