Fellow Class of 1976

Following are the names and citations for the active members of the IEEE Class of 1976 listed alphabetically by last name. 

A

Jagdishkumar K Aggarwal (Life Fellow)
For contributions to time delay systems and digital filters

Arthur Ashkin
For contributions to the theory and application of nonlinear interactions at microwave and optical frequencies

B

Pier L Bargellini
For contributions to satellite communications

Frank A Benson
For advances in knowledge of guided waves and ionized gases

Joseph Bordogna
For innovations in engineering and technical education

Gary D Boyd
For contributions to theory and practice in nonlinearoptical phenomena

C

James C Candy (Life Fellow)
For contributions to high-speed digital coders and video picture processing

Herbert Y Chang (Life Fellow)
For contributions in fault-tolerant computing and design automation

Kun-Mu Chen (Life Fellow)
For contributions to electromagnetics and plasmas

Donald Gene Childers (Life Fellow)
For contributions to electroencephalograph

John F Clark (Life Fellow)
For technical leadership of space programs

R Gerald Colclaser, Jr (Life Fellow)
For contributions to high-power circuit breaker technology

Martin Cooper (Life Fellow)
For contributions to radiotelephony

D

Lee D Davisson (Life Fellow)
For contributions to data compression in communications

Rui J P De Figueiredo (Life Fellow)
For contributions to nonlinear system theory and to the application of spline functions to signal processing theory

Gilbert B. Devey (Life Fellow)
For technical leadership in biomedical engineering

Sajjad H Durrani (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the conceptual design and analysis of space communications systems

E

William C Eppers (Life Fellow)
For technical contributions and leadership in the field of laser technology and applications

Edward W Ernst (Life Fellow)
For contributions to improved methods of laboratory instruction in electrical engineering education

G

Arthur Gelb (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the application of modern control and estimation theory to integrated navigation and guidance systems

S Harold Gold (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the development, testing, application, and standardization of improved electrical power utility apparatus

Lawrence P Grayson (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the application of technology to education

H

John D Harnden, Jr (Life Fellow)
For contributions by leadership in the development of new electric power controls

Robert M Howe (Life Fellow)
For contributions to analog hybrid computer technology

K

Maurice Karnaugh (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the understanding and application of digital techniques in telecommunications

Shlomo Karni (Life Fellow)
For contributions to circuit theory and engineering education

Robert W Keyes (Life Fellow)
For contributions to solid-state physics, and for the development of a theory defining the physical limits in digital computer device

Joseph L Koepfinger (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the application of relay protection in power systems

Faqir C Kohli (Life Fellow)
For leadership, planning, control technology, and management of efficient and reliable power systems

L

Jay W Lathrop (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the technology of monolithic and hybrid integrated circuits

Peter J Lawrenson (Life Fellow)
For contributions to electromagnetic field analysis and to the theory and design of electrical machines

Edwin R Lewis (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the modeling of neurological processes and the understanding of neurological transducers

M

Albert Macovski (Life Fellow)
For contributions to television engineering

John A Martin (Life Fellow)
For contributions to heavy ion cyclotrons developments

Joseph P Martino (Life Fellow)
For contributions to engineering management, R&D planning, and R&D resource allocation

Hans A Maurer (Life Fellow)
For contributions to radar and electrooptical technology

Kenneth R Mc Clymont (Life Fellow)
For contributions and leadership in the planning and development of a high-voltage bulk power transmission system

William J McNutt (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the design of power transformers ad standardization of test procedures

Harry W Mergler (Life Fellow)
For contributions to engineering education and research in digital logic, numerical control, and aeronautical instrumentation

George C Messenger (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the determination of radiation damage to semiconductors and advances in semiconductor device technology

William J M Moore (Life Fellow)
For contributions to precise current comparators and the application of the comparator to industrial measurements

Yasuto Mushiake
For contributions to linear antennas and self-complementary antennas

N

Essam Nasser (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the field of high-voltage engineering education and to the understanding of contaminated insulator breakdown

Harvey C Nathanson (Life Fellow)
For contributions to solid-state devices through the combination of micromechanics and semiconductor physics

P

Leonard J Porcello (Life Fellow)
For contributions and leadership in coherent optics and synthetic aperture radar programs

R

Lawrence R Rabiner
For contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication research

Veljko Radeka (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the theory and practice of nuclear detector signal processing

Frederick A Russell (Life Fellow)
For leadership in electrical engineering education

S

Andrew P Sage (Life Fellow)
For contributions to engineering education, and to the theory of systems, identification, estimation, and control

B R Saltzberg (Life Fellow)
For contributions to data communication.

Sean O Scanlan (Life Fellow)
For contributions to distributed circuit theory, and for leadership in engineering education

Martin V Schneider (Life Fellow)
For contributions to millimeter-wave integrated circuits and devices

James D Schoeffler (Life Fellow)
For contributions applied networks, control theory, and computer science, and for leadership in engineering education

Leon Schwartzman (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the theory and design of phased array radar antennas

Mario Sforzini (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the development of EHV and UHV transmission

J Paul Shelton, Jr. (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the theory and design of microwave antennas and feed networks

Samuel M Sherman (Life Fellow)
For contributions to radar systems engineering and signal processing

William H Steier (Life Fellow)
For contributions in the fields of optical and microwave devices

T

Jerome J Tiemann (Life Fellow)
For clarifying the understanding of interband tunneling and surface charge transport, and for applying these phenomena to new devices

William F Tinney (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the application of digital computers to solve large power network problems

David Treves (Life Fellow)
For contributions to magnetoptic memories, and for leadership in the field of applied physics

U

Stephen H Unger (Life Fellow)
For contributions to switching circuit theory and computer science education

W

Harold R Ward (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the design, analysis, and evaluation of radar systems

Williams D Warters (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the understanding of wave propagation in multimode media and to the development of millimeter waveguided transmission systems

Alan D White (Life Fellow)
For development and subsequent improvements of visible light helium-neon laser

Bernard Widrow (Life Fellow)
For contributions to adaptive antenna systems and to the theory of quantization error

Robert L Winchester (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the design and performance analysis of large steam-turbine generators and to the advancement of their excitation systems

Y

Bernard J Yokelson (Life Fellow)
For contributions to the development of telephone electronic switching systems and operator service systems