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THE OLDENBURGER MEDAL 1975 Introduction the Presentation Of THE OLDENBURGER MEDAL 1975 of the truly great esteem in which they are held by their colleagues Introduction and contemporaries. And for us in the ASME it seemed par­ ticularly fitting to honor especially a unique member of our own The ACD Honors Committee made the decision to present its Division who had not only contributed to its parochial concerns tff0 Oldenburger Medals in 1975 in consequence of some very and prestige but who also played a key role in the very formation special circumstances. of the organization meeting here today—IFAC—and of its Amer­ First, the 6th Triennial World Congress of the International ican affiliate, the American Automatic Control Council. Federation of Automatic Control was to be held in Cambridge/ This unusual man was Rufus Oldenburger: all American, but Boston in August partly in recognition of the U.S. Bicentennial a world figure, whom many of you remember vividly and fondly. Celebration which had begun with the 200th anniversary of the Thus not only was our new award to be named in his honor The Battles of Lexington and Concord. Rufus Oldenburger was him­ Oldenburger Medal, but he also became its first recipient in 1968. self instrumental in organizing IFAC and was very active in that Thus in this small gesture we trust he may have realized before organization. Moreover the ASME/ACD itself participates his untimely passing how much all in this room are beholden to actively in IFAC through the American Automatic Control him. Council. Thus it was the intention of the Automatic Control Of the subsequent Oldenburger medalists, several are at this Downloaded from http://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/dynamicsystems/article-pdf/98/2/125/5778038/125_1.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 Division to honor that association by presenting before that IFAC Congress and I believe are also here in this auditorium. distinguished world body of delegates an Oldenburger Medal to If they are so present, we would appreciate their standing to be Hendrik Bode who lives and works in Cambridge and who recognized as I call our their familiar names: needed no introduction to that group. 1969: Nathaniel B. Nichols At the same time, the ASME was to hold its Winter Annual 1970: John R. Ragazzini Meeting in Houston in December. In this case it was felt possible 1971: "Doc" C. Stark Draper to have the second Oldenburger Medalist, Harry Nyquist, make 1972: Albert J. Williams, Jr. the trip from Harlingen, Texas to Houston to receive the award 1973: "Doc" Clesson E. Mason in person. 1974: Herbert W. Ziebolz In this way the pairing of these two "giants of control theory via frequency response" as Oldenburger Medalists came about Now it has been our past custom to make this award at our very naturally. ASME annual meeting. Indeed we shall return to this custom The rest of the account of the two Award Ceremonies follows next wintei in making our award of a second 1975 Oldenburger below, together with some biographical material. Additional Medal to Harry Nyquist, another giant whose very name is documentation under the title "The Fundamental Contributions sufficient identification to all here assembled. of Nyquist and Bode to Automatic Control Theory" is planned But today at this very time and place, before a group singularly for the September issue of this Journal. able to appreciate and to honor him we wish to present an Olden­ burger Medal to one whose name, like Nyquist, is another "household word" throughout IFAC and the control profession The Presentation of The Oldenburger Medal across this planet. to In fact, I will let you guess his name from a few verbal clues Dr. Hendrik W. Bode taken verbatim from his landmark book finally appearing in OCCASION: declassified hard-covers just three short decades ago: ; The Oldenburger Medal was presented to Dr. Bode as a formal (a) feedback amplifier design part of the Gth Triennial World Congress of IFAC, meeting at (6) decibels and log frequency scale M.I.T. in Cambridge during the last week in August, 1975. The (c) gain margin and phase margin presentation occurred at a Plenary Awards Assembly held in (d) gain-phase relations M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium on August 27 (a magnificent sum­ (e) minimum phase condition and circuits mer afternoon) before approximately 800 IFAC delegates and (/) compensation friends. One should note that the brevity of the introductory remarks If you haven't guessed B-O-D-E as the household word, per­ and the response by the medalist was due to the limitation to haps you've missed something essential in automatic control just twenty minutes for the entire ceremony! This "telescoping" fundamentals! of an historic moment was not the intention of the ASME/ACD, This remarkable individual is thus already immortalized in but a result of IFAC scheduling of a clambake immediately fol­ that method of presenting frequency response data which bears lowing the award! his name. But the fact that these diagrams play such a vital and direct role in design process of active feedback control systems PRESENTATION REMARKS BY H. M. PAYNTER: made of real hardware better foretells his many additional lasting contributions to our peculiar art and craft. Thank you, Dr. Coales. The fertile notions for which we honor our medallist today Delegates and Friends: were brought forth during his four decades of service with Bell Labs, but most particularly, during the remarkable 1930's as I speak to you today on behalf of the President of The Ameri­ he and his associates wrestled with optimal designs of communi­ can Society of Mechanical Engineers, who is unable to be present cation systems based on fruitful marriages of passive filter cir­ in person today. cuits with active feedback amplifiers, following the inventions Like solid-state technology and like computer science, the of H. S. Black and the disclosures of Nyquist's regeneration newly emergent field we are pleased to call automatic control is theory. still so young and vigorous that many of its leaders and pioneers Perhaps it was just our medallist's particular good fortune to are still alive and well; indeed many are here with us today at be the right man at the right place at the right time working this 6th Triennial World Congress of IFAC. on the right problem; in his modesty he will surely put it thU In conscious recognition of this remarkable fact, the Automatic way. Control Division of The American Society of Mechanical Engi­ So quite naturally those very signal shaping design procedures neers decided a decade ago to honor some of our heroic figures using active feedback circuitry which worked so well for com­ with a suitable award and medallion as a representative token munication systems in the 1930's, were equally successful when Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control JUNE 1976 / 12S Copyright © 1976 by ASME applied to the control systems of the 1940's and the high-speed the solution of all problems in control theory, and of cour< computing systems of the 1950's. they didn't, they were at least highly suggestive. But our man's surest insights were to reveal so clearly and so It is worth noting that somewhat the same relation exist, permanently that even feedback and amplifiers could not per­ today. The growing sophistication of signalling theory, hayxl form miracles against Nature's inexorable energy constraints and now on Shannon's theorem and computer processing, matches causality conditions! It is this aspect of his work which is even the growing complexity of control system problems. now bearing further fruit, perhaps unbeknownst to him, in high- My own contributions to this early signalling theory were energy particle physics and scattering theory of the 1960's and quite meager, but there were, of course, important contributions 1970's. from others. One thinks immediately of the Campbell-Fo^M But in our limited time we would all prefer to hear from our table pf Fourier transforms, or MacColl's book on servo-mecha­ medallist himself. nisms, for example. However, the outstanding name is clearly It is therefore my great personal pleasure to announce that on that of Harry Nyquist who is, I am told, also to receive the behalf of the Automatic Control Division of the ASMB that the Oldenburger Medal this year. Oldenburger Medal has been awarded to Dr. Hendrik W. Bode, Nyquist is outstanding both for the importance and the variety Emeritus Gordon MacKay Professor of Systems Engineering at. of his contributions. Control theorists know him as the author Downloaded from http://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/dynamicsystems/article-pdf/98/2/125/5778038/125_1.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 Harvard University. of the Nyquist stability criterion. Modern communications engi­ Would he kindly step forward to receive the award and hear neers base their calculations on the Nyquist sampling thcorcn the citation? and the Nyquist interval. Circuit theorists turn to the Nyquist formula for thermal noise in electrical circuits. In between times Citation he became the author of more than a hundred inventions. Nyquist was my senior by 12 or 15 years when I first joined To HENDRIK WADE BODE: "In recognition of his attain­ Bell Labs. I looked up to him almost from the start. I am very ments in advancing the science and technology of automatic much flattered to have my name coupled with his on this oc­ control and particularly for his development of frequency domain casion. techniques that are widely used in the design of feedback control My last reason for special satisfaction with the award is that it systems." allows me to emerge with some grace from a hole I dug for my­ self in writing the "History of an Idea" paper.
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