Louis Smullin
Louis Dijour Smullin (February 5, 1916 - June 4, 2009) was an American
Life and career
Smullin was born in Detroit to Isaac M. Smullin (May 15, 1887 - December 12, 1965) and Ida May (born June 11, 1887). His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants.[1] His father was an advocate for the Communist International Labor Defense, was involved with Th. L. Poindexter in Detroit around 1938 in the Roumanian Workers Educational Association of America, and later established the Worker's Camp. In 1957, his parents were called before by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Smullin spent two years at the local Wayne State University and then moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he received the BSE in electrical engineering in 1936. After two years of working in the industry, he enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1939 earned his Master of Science with the work in "The Acceleration and Focusing of Electrons in Multi-Stage Tubes". In June he married Ruth Frankel (died 2011).[2]
In 1936, he worked for several months as a draftsman for the Swift Electric Welder Company. At the Ohio Brass Company in Barberton, he spent two years performing high voltage tests on transmission-line insulators and radio interference.[2] After MIT, he joined Farnsworth Television and Radio in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Here he designed and tested photomultiplier tubes. [2]
After the outbreak of war, in 1940 he moved to the Scintilla Magneto Division of
After the war, in 1946 he then spent a short time at the Federal Telecommunications Laboratory in Nutley, New Jersey. In 1947 he returned to MIT to organize and lead the Microwave Tube Laboratory of the Laboratory of Electronics.[3] He helped plan and set up the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, which MIT President James Rhyne Killian had resisted in 1951. In 1952 he became head of the radar and weapons department at the Lincoln Lab.
In 1955 he returned to the MIT Cambridge campus as associate professor of Electrical Engineering and was appointed Professor in 1960.
From 1966 to February 1974 he was head of the electrical engineering department.
In 1968 he was appointed a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was also a member of the American Society of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi.
Smullin died in Newton, Massachusetts.
He is the father of the sculptor Frank Smullin,[6] and his grandson is actor, author, and musician Andras Jones.[7]
References
- ^ https://news.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/techtalk53-28.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjXkJfbwtHrAhVEx1kKHZtgDGkQFjAAegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw1fl68ifQEYr0dP9OdpNm98 [dead link]
- ^ a b c d Acad 2013, p. 309.
- ^ a b c Acad 2013, p. 310.
- ^ a b Acad 2013, p. 311.
- ^ Acad 2013, p. 310, 313.
- ^ "The Boston Globe 21 Nov 1983, page 23". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
- ^ "44Andras Jones"Three Day Weekend"7 of Wands (Valour) | Radio8Ball".
- Penfield Jr., Paul (2013). Memorial Tributes, Volume 17. National Academies Press. pp. 309โ313. ISBN 978-0-309-29193-4.
- "Louis Smullin, former electrical engineering department head, 93". 8 June 2009.
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