Harold Alden Wheeler
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Born | National Bureau of Standards, Hazeltine Corporation , Wheeler Laboratories | 10 May 1903
Harold Alden Wheeler (10 May 1903 – 25 April 1996) was a noted
Early life and education
Harold A. Wheeler was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to William Archibald Wheeler and Harriet Marie Alden Wheeler (a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden).
In 1925 Wheeler graduated from
During his education he worked part-time at the
Career
In 1924 he became
During World War II Wheeler led work on identification friend or foe (IFF) antennas for aircraft, surface vessels, submarines, and ground stations. By war's end, these "lifesaver antennas" had been placed on all Allied ships.
In 1946 he founded Wheeler Laboratories to develop microwave circuits and antennas for missile systems tracking and guidance radar. In 1959, when it became a Hazeltine subsidiary, he was named a Hazeltine director and vice-president.
Honours
All told, Wheeler held 180 United States patents and received over fifty awards. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers (1927) and of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1946), and awarded the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award in 1940 "for his contribution to the analysis of wide-band high-frequency circuits particularly suitable for television", and the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1964 "for his analyses of the fundamental limitations on the resolution in television systems and on wideband amplifiers, and for his basic contributions to the theory and development of antennas, microwave elements, circuits, and receivers."
Wheeler was also a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and the Defense Science Board.
References
- Metzger, Sidney (2001). Harold Alden Wheeler 1903–1996. National Academy of Sciences Memorial Series. National Academy of Engineering. ISBN 978-0-309-07411-7– via nap.nationalacademies.org.
- "Harold A. Wheeler". ieeeghn.org. biography. IEEE History Center. 27 July 2018.
- Nebeker, Frederik (August 1992). "Harold Alden Wheeler: A lifetime of applied electronics". doi:10.1109/5.158595.
- Nebeker, Rik (29–31 July 1991). "Harold Wheeler". ieeeghn.org. IEEE oral history interview. IEEE History Center. Interview # 117.
External links
- "Harold Wheeler Award". ieee.li. IEEE LI Section Awards.