Theresa M. Korn
Theresa M. Korn | |
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Carnegie Institute of Technology
University of California, Los Angeles (Master's) | |
| Employer(s) | Curtiss-Wright, Boeing |
| Known for | Author, engineer, radio enthusiast, and airplane pilot |
Theresa Marie Korn (née McLaughlin, November 5, 1926 – April 9, 2020) was an American engineer, radio enthusiast, and airplane pilot. The first woman to earn an engineering degree from what is now Carnegie Mellon University,[1][2] she was the author of multiple books on engineering and mathematics.
A fictionalized version of Korn is one of the characters in the novel Kay Everett Calls CQ by Amelia Lobsenz (Vanguard Press, 1951), describing a girls' summer road trip adventure in the 1940s with ham radio and flying components.[3]
Life
Theresa McLaughlin was born in
Carnegie Institute of Technology, which later became Carnegie Mellon University.[4]
Since its founding in 1903, the Carnegie Institute had admitted women as students, but only through its
IEEE. The society refused her nomination because she was a woman, instead giving her a certificate as the best student in her class.[4]
She became a junior engineer for
Granino Arthur Korn,[4] a German-born physicist, the son of physicist and inventor Arthur Korn.[1] Granino was head of analysis at Curtiss-Wright, and because of the anti-nepotism rules then in place at Curtiss-Wright, this marriage caused her to lose her position there. A few years later, they both moved to Boeing in Seattle and she returned to work, on airplane engineering.[4][1] The Korns co-founded an engineering consulting company in 1952, and Theresa Korn earned a master's degree in 1954 from the University of California, Los Angeles.[4] In 1957, her husband became a professor of computer and electrical engineering at the University of Arizona, while Theresa Korn managed the consulting business and became active in Tucson society.[4] After Granino Korn retired in 1983, the Korns moved to Wenatchee, Washington. Granino died on December 17, 2013,[6] and Theresa Korn died from COVID-19 on April 9, 2020, in Wenatchee during the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington (state).[1]
Books
Korn was the author of:
- Trailblazer to Television: The story of Arthur Korn (with Elizabeth Korn, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950)[7]
- Electronic Analog Computers (D-C Analog Computers) (with Granino Korn, McGraw-Hill, 1952; 2nd ed., 1956; translated into German as Elektronische Analogierechenmaschinen, 1962)[8]
- Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers: Definitions, Theorems, and Formulas for Reference and Review (with Granino Korn, McGraw-Hill, 1961; 2nd ed., 1968; Dover, 2000; translated into Russian as Справочник по математике для научных работников и инженеров, 1968,[9] 1970, 1973,[10] 1977, and 1984,[nb 1] and into Polish as Matematyka dla pracowników naukowych i inżynierów, 1983)[11]
- Electronic Analog and Hybrid Computers (with Granino Korn, McGraw-Hill, 1964; translated into Russian as Электронные аналоговые и аналого-цифровые вычислительные машины, 1967)[12]
- Manual of Mathematics (abridged from Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers, with Granino Korn, McGraw-Hill, 1967)[13]
Notes
- BSB B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, who were publishing a German translation of Nauka's title in huge quantities.[14] This led Teubner to start working on an update of the volume on their own in 1970 and publish their completely reworked two-volume 19th German edition in 1979.[14] That was successful enough to lead to a retranslation into Russian as well as into various other languages and caused a complex international publishing history up to the present (2013) centered around the German rather than the originally Russian work.[14][9]The translation of Korn's work, however, was successful as well in the Russian market and was revised several times.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h K7JGU 1926 – 2020, Quarter Century Wireless Association, 2020, archived from the original on 2021-08-20, retrieved 2021-03-26
- ^ "Obituary - Theresa M. Korn - Nov 5th 1926 – April 9, 2020", Heritage Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, East Wenatchee, Washington, USA, April 10, 2020, archived from the original on 2021-03-26, retrieved 2021-12-30
- ^ Scott NØZB (November 27, 2015), "Kay Everett Calls CQ", AmateurRadio.com
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Theresa M. "Terry" Korn", Women's Plaza of Honor, Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona, October 24, 2006, archived from the original on 2022-02-04, retrieved 2021-03-26
- ^ "District news: Seventh district" (PDF), Harmonics: The YL's Own Journal: 21, March–April 1969
- ^ "Granino A. Korn, May 7, 1922 – December 17, 2013", The Wenatchee World, January 5, 2014, retrieved 2021-03-26
- Radio Electronics, [3]
- Zbl 0070.35502
- ^ DNB-IDN 1052022731, archived(PDF) from the original on 2016-04-06, retrieved 2016-04-06
- Корн (Korn), Тереза М. (Theresa M.) (1973), Справочник по математике для научных работников и инженеров [Handbook of mathematics for engineers and students of technical universities] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka (Наука), archivedfrom the original on 2021-12-30, retrieved 2022-01-06
- Zbl 0189.00101
- ^ a b c Ziegler, Dorothea (February 21, 2002), "Der "Bronstein"", Archiv der Stiftung Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner, Leipzig (in German), Frauwalde, Germany, archived from the original on 2016-03-25, retrieved 2016-03-25
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