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'''Ronold Wyeth Percival King''' (September 19, 1905 – April 10, 2006) was an American applied physicist, known for his contributions to the theory and application of [[microwave antenna]]s. He published twelve books and over three hundred articles in his area, as well as mentored one hundred doctoral dissertations.<ref name="mathgenealogy"/><ref name="llmgp">{{citation |
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Born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, he moved to Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a professor of German. He earned an A.B. (1927) and S.M. (1929) degree in physics from the University of Rochester. He was an exchange student at the University of Munich (1928-29) and attended Cornell University (1929-30), before completing his graduate studies at University of Wisconsin–Madison (1932) where he obtained a Ph.D. on the thesis Characteristics of Vacuum Tube Circuits Having Distributed Constants at Ultra-Radio Frequencies advised by Edward Bennett[1] and subsequently was a research assistant (1932-34).
King was an instructor and assistant professor in physics at Lafayette College (1934-37), and a Guggenheim Fellow overseas (1937, 1958). He joined Harvard University as an instructor (1938), as assistant professor (1939), associate (1942), and as Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics (1946-72, taken over by his former student Tai Tsun Wu), and professor emeritus (1972).[2] He resided at Winchester, Massachusetts, and wrote the autobiography A Man of the 20th Century.
His research group at Harvard spent the 1940s and '50s developing the theory of antenna (radio), using the cylindrical antenna as a boundary value problem subject to Maxwell's equations. Also, scattering and diffraction of electromagnetic waves from spheres, cylinders, strips, and disks, conducted within earth, under water or in tissue.[3]
Books
- Electromagnetic engineering (McGraw-Hill, 1945)
- Transmission lines, antennas and wave guides (McGraw-Hill, 1945). With Harry R. Mimno and Alexander H. Wing
- Theory of linear antennas (Oxford University Press, 1956)
- The scattering and diffraction of waves (Oxford University Press, 1959). With Tai Tsun Wu
- Antennas and waves, a modern approach (MIT Press, 1970). With Charles Harrison
- Arrays of cylindrical dipoles (Cambridge Press)
- Antennas in matter (MIT Press, 1981). With Glenn S. Smith
- Fundamental electromagnetic theory and applications (Prentice-Hall, 1985). With Sheila Prasad.
- Cylindrical Antennas and Arrays (Cambridge Press, 2002). With George Fikioris and Richard B. Mack
Awards
- IEEE Fellow, Life fellow
- fellow of the American Physical Society
- fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Distinguished Service Award from the University of Wisconsin (1973)
- 1983 Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility
- Centennial Medal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1985)
- Harold Pender Award from The Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania (1986)
- Distinguished Achievement Award of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1997)
- IEEE Graduate Teaching Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1997)
- Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2001).
- Professor R.W.P. King Education Fund (1972)
References
- ^ Ronold W. P. King at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Ronold King, 100, was mentor to scores of doctoral students obituary from Harvard University
- ^ E. Courses, Sixty Years at Harvard: The Career of Professor Ronold W. P. King, from IEEE (2001)