Leopold B. Felsen
Leopold B. Felsen[1] (May 7, 1924 in Munich[2] – September 24, 2005 in Boston[3]) was an electrical engineer and physicist known for studies of electromagnetism and wave-based disciplines. He had to flee Germany at 16 due to the Nazis.[4] He has fundamental contributions to applied electromagnetic field analysis.
Academic life
[edit]He received his bachelor, master, and PhD degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, in 1948, 1950, and 1952, respectively, all in electrical engineering.[2] After his educations he became professor at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn[5] and at Boston University College of Engineering, an IEEE life fellow and a fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the Optical Society of America.[2]
In 1973 he coauthored with Nathan Marcuvitz a textbook titled Radiation and Scattering of Waves which published by Prentice Hall in its Electrical Engineering Series. This was a classic worldwide textbook which immediately became widely used by researchers[6] and has been described as "The Bible" in applied electromagnetism.[7] In 1994 IEEE reissued Radiation and Scattering of Waves as one of its classic reissues in the collection of The IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory.[8]
Awards
[edit]In 1991 he won the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal.[9][10]
Publications
[edit]Authored
[edit]- Felsen LB, Marcuvitz N, Radiation and Scattering of Waves, Wiley-IEEE, 2003.
- Felsen LB, Mongiardo M, Russer P, Electromagnetic Field Computation by Network Methods, Springer, 2009.[Note 1]
Edited
[edit]- Bertoni HL, Carin L, Felsen LB, (Eds), Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics, vol 1, Springer, 1993.
- Bertoni HL, Felsen LB, (Eds), Directions in Electromagnetic Wave Modeling, Springer, 1991.
- Carin L, Felsen LB, (Eds), Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics, vol 2, Springer, 1995.
- Felsen LB, (Ed), Hybrid Formulation of Wave Propagation and Scattering, Martinus Nijhoff, 1984.
- Felsen LB, (Ed), Transient Electromagnetic Fields, Springer, 1976.
- Pinto IM, Galdi V, Felsen LB, (Eds), Electromagnetics in a Complex World: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2004.
Tributed
[edit]- Russer P, Mongiardo M, (Eds), Fields, Networks, Computational Methods, and Systems in Modern Electrodynamics: A Tribute to Leopold B. Felsen, Springer, 2004.
- Sevgi L, Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation, Wiley-IEEE, 2014.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Published posthumously.
References
[edit]- ^ Dr. Leopold B. Felsen elected in 1977 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for his contributions to Contributions to the theory and application of microwave propagation in complex media and for leadership in engineering education.
- ^ a b c Felsen, L. B. (1992). "Radiation and Scattering of Transient Electromagnetic Fields". International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields. 5 (3): 149–161. doi:10.1002/jnm.1660050305. ISSN 0894-3370.
- ^ Leary, W. E. (2005). "Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Leary, Warren E. (10 October 2005). "Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies". The New York Times.
- ^ "Felsen family endows scholarship at Poly". NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. May 4, 2006. Archived from the original on 2014-05-29.
- ^ Felsen, L. B.; Marcuvitz, N. (2003). Radiation and Scattering of Waves. Wiley-IEEE. pp. vii–viii. ISBN 978-0-780-31088-9.
- ^ Leary, W. E. (October 2005). "Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
- ^ Dudley, D. G. (2006). "The IEEE Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 48 (6): 126–127. doi:10.1109/MAP.2006.323368. ISSN 1558-4143. S2CID 40484203.
- ^ Recipients of the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- ^ IEEE site
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