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Leopold Benno Felsen
Born(1924-05-07)May 7, 1924
Munich, Weimar Republic
DiedSeptember 24, 2005(2005-09-24) (aged 81)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materPolytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Diffraction by Wedges and Cones  (1952)
Doctoral advisorNathan Marcuvitz

Leopold Benno Felsen (May 7, 1924 – September 24, 2005) was a German-born American electrical engineer and physicist known for his fundamental contributions to electromagnetism and wave-based disciplines. For the most of his career, he was a professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, which later became New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

Biography

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Leopold Benno Felsen was born on May 7, 1924 in Munich[1][2] to Markus and Anna Felsen. He was of Polish-Jewish descent, with his father being a Polish citizen. His family was persecuted by the Nazi regime due to their ancestry; in 1940, he was sent to the United States by his family to live with a relative. While his parents survived and joined him in the United States in 1946, many of his family members including her elder sister Johanna died during the Holocaust.[3][4]

He received his bachelor, master, and PhD degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, in 1948, 1950, and 1952, respectively, all in electrical engineering.[2] After his educations he became professor at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn[5] and at Boston University College of Engineering, an IEEE life fellow and a fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the Optical Society of America.[2]

In 1973, he coauthored with Nathan Marcuvitz a textbook titled Radiation and Scattering of Waves which published by Prentice Hall in its Electrical Engineering Series. This was a classic worldwide textbook which immediately became widely used by researchers[6] and has been described as "The Bible" in applied electromagnetism.[7] In 1994 IEEE reissued Radiation and Scattering of Waves as one of its classic reissues in the collection of The IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory.[8]

Following his retirement from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1994, Felsen relocated Boston to be near his family and accepted a faculty position at Boston University, teaching there until his death. From 1970s onward, he lived with muscular dystrophy. He died on September 24, 2005 in Boston, following complications from a surgery, and was survived by his two children and three grandchilren.[9]

Awards

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In 1977, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for his contributions to the theory and application of microwave propagation in complex media and for leadership in engineering education."[10] In 1991 he won the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal.[11][12]

Publications

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Authored

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Edited

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  • Bertoni HL, Carin L, Felsen LB, (Eds), Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics, vol 1, Springer, 1993.
  • Bertoni HL, Felsen LB, (Eds), Directions in Electromagnetic Wave Modeling, Springer, 1991.
  • Carin L, Felsen LB, (Eds), Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics, vol 2, Springer, 1995.
  • Felsen LB, (Ed), Hybrid Formulation of Wave Propagation and Scattering, Martinus Nijhoff, 1984.
  • Felsen LB, (Ed), Transient Electromagnetic Fields, Springer, 1976.
  • Pinto IM, Galdi V, Felsen LB, (Eds), Electromagnetics in a Complex World: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2004.

Tributed

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  • Russer P, Mongiardo M, (Eds), Fields, Networks, Computational Methods, and Systems in Modern Electrodynamics: A Tribute to Leopold B. Felsen, Springer, 2004.
  • Sevgi L, Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation, Wiley-IEEE, 2014.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Published posthumously.

References

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  1. ^ "In Memoriam: Leopold Benno Felsen (1924-2005)". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 47 (4): 151–152. August 2005. doi:10.1109/MAP.2005.1589915.
  2. ^ a b c Felsen, L. B. (1992). "Radiation and Scattering of Transient Electromagnetic Fields". International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields. 5 (3): 149–161. doi:10.1002/jnm.1660050305. ISSN 0894-3370.
  3. ^ Leary, Warren E. (10 October 2005). "Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Hutzelmann, Barbara. "Johanna Felsen - Luisenstr. 7". erinnerungszeichen.de. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  5. ^ "Felsen family endows scholarship at Poly". NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. May 4, 2006. Archived from the original on 2014-05-29.
  6. ^ Felsen, L. B.; Marcuvitz, N. (2003). Radiation and Scattering of Waves. Wiley-IEEE. pp. vii–viii. ISBN 978-0-780-31088-9.
  7. ^ Leary, W. E. (October 2005). "Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
  8. ^ Dudley, D. G. (2006). "The IEEE Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 48 (6): 126–127. doi:10.1109/MAP.2006.323368. ISSN 1558-4143. S2CID 40484203.
  9. ^ Leary, W. E. (2005). "Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  10. ^ Dr. Leopold B. Felsen elected in 1977 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for his contributions to the theory and application of microwave propagation in complex media and for leadership in engineering education.
  11. ^ Recipients of the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  12. ^ IEEE site


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