Simon Ramo

Simon Ramo ( born March 7, 1913 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. He is considered the father of the intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) in the USA.

Life

Ramo studied from 1929 at the University of Utah Electrical Engineering with a bachelor 's degree in 1933 and his doctorate in 1936, both in electrical engineering at Caltech as in physics. After that he went into the research for General Electric, where he worked in microwave technology and electron microscopy. He became a leading engineer in microwave technology and had before his 30th birthday already around 25 patents. In 1946 he went as a research director and vice president of Hughes Aircraft. As increasingly resulted management problems with Howard Hughes (which is also the main customer, the U.S. Air Force, lamented ), he left with Dean Wooldridge ( 1913-2006 ) 1953 Hughes Aircraft and Ramo - Wooldridge Corporation founded. 1954 to 1958 he headed the scientific portion of the ICBM program of the U.S. and it was successful. As Ramo Wooldridge - merged in 1958 to TRW Inc., where he became vice president. Formed in 1964 with Martin Marietta TRW Bunko Ramo Corporation, Ramo as president.

In 2008 he became a professor ( Presidential Chair ) at the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California. He wrote numerous books of microwave technology on management to tennis.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Engineering (which he co-founded ) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE). In 1983, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the 1979 National Medal of Science.

Ramo is married, has two sons and lives in Beverly Hills. The IEEE assigns a Simon Ramo Medal.

Writings

  • Introduction to Microwaves. McGraw Hill, 1945.
  • Fields and Waves in Modern Radio. Wiley, 1944; 2nd edition. with John Whinnery, 1953.
  • Publisher Allen Puckett: Guided missile engineering. McGraw Hill, 1959.
  • Publisher: Peacetime uses of outer space. McGraw Hill, 1961.
  • The management of innovative technological corporations. Wiley, 1980.
  • The management of innovative technological corporations. McGraw Hill, 1983.
  • The Business of Science: Winning and Losing in the High -Tech Age. Hill & Wang Pub, 1988.
  • Cure for chaos; fresh solutions to social problems through the systems approach. McKay, 1969.
  • America's technology slip. Wiley, 1980.
  • Century of Mismatch. McKay, New York, 1970.
  • Extraordinary tennis for the ordinary player. 2nd edition. New York 1977.
  • Tennis by Machiavelli. New York 1984.
  • With John R. Whinnery, Theodore Van Duzer: Fields and waves in communication electronics. 3rd edition. Wiley, 1994.
  • Let the robots do the dying. Figueroa Press, Los Angeles 2011.
  • To wit. Figueroa Press, Los Angeles 2011.
  • Tales from the Top. Figueroa Press, Los Angeles 2011.
  • Meetings, meetings and more meetings. Getting things done When people are Involved. Bonus Books, Los Angeles, 2005.
  • With Ronald Sugar: Strategic business forecasting. A structured approach to shaping the future of your business. McGraw Hill, 2009.
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