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Henry G. Booker
Henry G. Booker
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In aciclition to teaching us the subject matter at hancI, more importantly he taught us how to learn en c! that learning sustains life in its full measure.
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from 1933 to 1948 in England, largely at Cambridge University, but with an important 5-year segment at the Telecommunication Research Establishment cluring WorIcl War II, (2) from 1948 to 1965 at Cornell University, en c!
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During WorIcl War II Booker was in charge of theoretical research at the Telecommunications Research Establishment in EnglancI, where he was involvecl in clevelopment of new icleas on antennas, electromagnetic wave propagation, en c! racier systems, all of which were critical to the defense of Britain.
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his interest from smoothly varying meclia to irregular meclia, at Cornell he proviclecl the stimulation for creative work by students en cl colleagues, while he mover! a school of electrical engineering built on power generation en cl vacuum tubes into the postwar era of communications en cl information.
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It was to grow rapidly to 12 colleges, 27,000 students, and a faculty of worIcI-cIass researchers using a combination of state en cl fecleral funcis. When Reagan replacecl Brown the master plan lost its energizer, the shrinking state funcis were subject to higher education competition from stalwarts Berkeley en cl Los Angeles, en cl UCSD settlecl for 5, not 12, colleges.
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The International Union of Radio Science has a major international scientific meeting every three years, the general assembly. For the past seven meetings one or more Henry G
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Throughout his life Professor Booker was most cleclicatecl to the education of unclergracluate en cl graduate stuclents, many of whom are now eminent scientists en cl eclucators in their own right. In ~ 979 his former students, colleagues, en cl friends honored him with the establishment of a fellowship in his name at the National Academy of Sciences to support participation of "a young scientist of promise" at the general assembly of International Union of Raclio Science.
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0 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS AWARD S 1934-35 Allen Scholarship, Cambridge University 1935 Smith Prize, Cambridge University 1947 Duddell Premium, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1948 Kelvin Premium, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1954-55 Guggenheim Fellowship 1970 50th Anniversary Medal, American Meteorological Society 1981 Honorary professor, Wuhan University, Hubei, China 1984 Centennial Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A 237:411-51. 1946 Elements of radio meteorology: How weather and climate cause unorthodox radar vision beyond the geometrical horizon.
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Theory of radio transmission by tropospheric scattering using very narrow beams.
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Vats. Application of refractive scintillation theory to laser transmission through the atmosphere near ground level.
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