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Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://nap.edu/4779 SHARE Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 DETAILS 255 pages | 6 x 9 | HARDBACK ISBN 978-0-309-05146-0 | DOI 10.17226/4779 CONTRIBUTORS GET THIS BOOK National Academy of Engineering FIND RELATED TITLES Visit the National Academies Press at NAP.edu and login or register to get: – Access to free PDF downloads of thousands of scientific reports – 10% off the price of print titles – Email or social media notifications of new titles related to your interests – Special offers and discounts Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the National Academies Press. (Request Permission) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES i Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES ii Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 iii Memorial Tributes Volume 7 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. 1994 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES iv International Standard Book Number 0–309–05146–0 International Standard Serial Number 1075–8844 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 92–645111 Additional copies of this publication are available from: National Academy Press 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Box 285 Washington, D.C. 20055 800–624–6242 or 202–334–3313 (in the Washington Metropolitan Area) B-467 Copyright 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 CONTENTS v CONTENTS FOREWORD xi ISAAC L. AUERBACH, 3 by Jordan J. Baruch WALTER C. BACHMAN, 9 Prepared with the assistance of the NAE Membership Office Sub- mitted by the NAE Home Secretary HORACE SMART "BUD" BEATTIE, 13 by Robert M. Drake, Jr., and William Riley MELVIN BOBO, 17 by Frank E. Pickering RAY H. BOUNDY, 21 by Robert M. Nowak RAYMOND F. BOYER, 25 by Alfred E. Brown JOHN VALENTINE BREAKWELL, 29 by Richard H. Battin Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 CONTENTS vi SOLOMON JAN BUCHSBAUM, 35 by Roy W. Gould DAYTON H. CLEWELL, 41 by S. L. Meisel ROBERT L. COBLE, 47 by Merton C. Flemings JOHN H. DESSAUER, 51 by Robert J. Spinrad HOWARD DAVIS EBERHART, 55 by Boris Bresler, Egor Popov, Edward Wilson, and Alexander Scordelis JAMES CORNELIUS ELMS, 61 by Max Faget JOHN S. FORREST, 65 by John G. Anderson A. PHARO GAGGE, 69 by Henning E. von Gierke FREDERICK W. GARRY, 75 by Edward E. Hood, Jr. ROBERT F. GILKESON, 81 by J. L. Everett CHARLES P. GINSBURG, 85 Written by Peter Hammar Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary EDWARD L. GLASER, 91 Prepared with the assistance of the NAE Membership Office Sub- mitted by the NAE Home Secretary Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 CONTENTS vii PETER HAASEN, 97 by Anthony Kelly LAWRENCE R. HAFSTAD, 105 Written by John D. Caplan Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary ALBERT C. HALL, 109 by Laurence J. Adams W. LINCOLN HAWKINS, 115 by David W. McCall JOHN F. KAHLES, 121 by Michael Field JOSEPH KESTIN, 125 by Daniel C. Drucker EDWIN HERBERT LAND, 129 Written by Stanley H. Mervis Submitted by the NAE Home Secre- tary INGE MARTIN LYSE, 135 by Lynn S. Beedle HERBERT G. MACPHERSON, 143 by A. M. Weinberg PAUL W. MORGAN, 149 Written by Gerard Lavin, Joe T. Rivers, John R. Schaefgen, and Stephanie L. Kwolek Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary ALLEN NEWELL, 155 by Edward A. Feigenbaum BRIAN O'BRIEN, 161 Written by Walter P. Siegmund Submitted by the NAE Home Sec- retary Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 CONTENTS viii CLARKSON H. OGLESBY, 167 by Eugene L. Grant KLAUS OSWATITSCH, 171 Written by Alfred E. Kluwick Submitted by the NAE Home Secre- tary ALFRED L. PARME, 177 by Anton Tedesko EDUARD C. PESTEL, 183 by Frederick F. Ling HENRY J. RAMEY, JR., 187 Written by William E. Brigham Submitted by the NAE Home Sec- retary GORDON G. ROBECK, 193 Written by James M. Symons Submitted by the NAE Home Secre- tary HENRY A. SCHADE, 199 by Alaa E. Mansour, J. Randolph Paulling, Egor P. Popov, and John V. Wehausen GALEN B. SCHUBAUER, 205 by Hans W. Liepmann RALPH A. SEBAN, 211 by Salomon Levy LEVERING SMITH, 215 by Willis M. Hawkins and many others MONROE EDWARD SPAGHT, 223 Written by John F. Bookout Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary ERIC E. SUMNER, 229 by Solomon J. Buchsbaum Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 CONTENTS ix RICHARD HENRY TATLOW III, 233 by Wallace L. Chadwick FREDERICK HENRY TODD, 237 by William B. Morgan APPENDIX, 241 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHS, 243 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 CONTENTS x Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 FOREWORD xi FOREWORD THIS IS THE SEVENTH VOLUME in the series of Memorial Tributes issued periodically by the National Academy of Engineering to honor the deceased members and foreign associates of the Academy and to recognize their achievements. It is intended that these volumes will stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased members and foreign associates. The National Academy of Engineering is a private organization established in 1964 to share in the responsibility given the National Academy of Sciences under its congressional charter signed by President Lincoln in 1863 to examine and report on questions of science and engineering at the request of the federal government. Individuals are elected to the National Academy of Engineering on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. Simon Ostrach Home Secretary Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 FOREWORD xii Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES 1 Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 ISAAC L. AUERBACH 2 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 ISAAC L. AUERBACH 3 ISAAC L. AUERBACH 1921–1992 BY JORDAN J. BARUCH ON DECEMBER 24, 1992, with the death of Isaac L. Auerbach, the world simultaneously lost a skilled, creative engineer; a special breed of philanthropist; an entrepreneur, consultant, and teacher; and an artist in the demanding world of color photography. Isaac was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 9, 1921. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1943 and spent the war years from 1943 to 1946 in the U.S. Navy. During his stay in the navy, he was introduced to his future in electronics working on the Mark V IFF system at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and to his future as a leader serving as a lieutenant (junior grade) aboard a destroyer escort in the North Atlantic. After the war Isaac attended Harvard University, where he received an M.S. in applied physics. After graduation Isaac worked with the Eckert Mauchly Computer Corporation (later Sperry-Univac), where he was one of the designers of the BINAC and UNIVAC computers. After Sperry, Isaac spent eight years at Burroughs, where he formed and directed the Defense, Space, and Special Products Division. Among his major accomplishments there, were the first real-time, transistor-based guidance computer system for the U.S. space program and a continuing series of Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 ISAAC L. AUERBACH 4 ever-more powerful encryption and decryption computers for the U.S. government. By 1957 Isaac had had enough of working for others and struck out on his own. He then established the Auerbach Corporation for Science and Technology. Under the rubric of that corporation and independently, Isaac, as a pioneering entrepreneur in the computer field, founded and headed more than a dozen successful companies. Among the best known of these was Auerbach Associates Inc., one of the earliest computer system design and consulting firms in the United States. Specializing in real-time systems, the firm was responsible for a new air-traffic control system for the Federal Aviation Administration, the earliest airline reservation system, and every computer in the U.S. Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Personally, Isaac was a successful inventor, holding sixteen U.S. and foreign patents in the digital computer field. Another firm that he founded, Auerbach Publishers Inc., produced a world- renowned series of loose-leaf information services covering computer technology, information management, and computers in manufacturing. These services updated information monthly and distributed it on six continents. The information eventually came to fill thirty-seven substantial binders, which essentially defined the computer industry. As reflected in his consulting and his publishing, Isaac recognized how important communication among professionals was to the development of the information field. He pulled together forty-eight professional societies from fifteen countries and in 1960 founded (and served as the first president of) the International Federation for Information Processing.
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