Jan A. Rajchman
Jan Aleksander Rajchman | |
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| Born | August 10, 1911 London, England |
| Died | April 1, 1989 (aged 77) |
| Known for | (1977) |
Jan Aleksander Rajchman (10 August 1911 – 1 April 1989) was a Polish-American
Biography
Jan Aleksander was son of Ludwik Rajchman and Maria Bojańczyk. His father was a Polish bacteriologist and the founder of UNICEF. He was born in London, where his parents temporarily lived, and where his father held various positions at the Royal Institute of Public Health and King's College.
He received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the
Rajchman emigrated to America in 1935. He joined RCA Laboratory directed by Vladimir K. Zworykin in January 1936.
He was a prolific inventor with 107 US patents among others logic circuits for
He was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is also a member of Sigma Xi, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Physical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Franklin Institute. He received the 1960 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award and the 1974 IEEE
US patents
- U.S. patent 2,792,563 – Magnetic System, 1957