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At Stanford, Villard used radar to study electrical disturbances in the upper atmosphere caused by meteor trails, nuclear explosions, and rocket launches. His most famous work may be his 1959 efforts in over-the-horizon radar , which worked by reflecting high-frequency radar from the ionosphere .
Reading time 6 min. Stanford News Service. Oswald Garrison “Mike” Villard Jr., who taught electrical engineering at Stanford for five decades, helped create some of the Cold War’s most advanced technologies, the kind of high-tech research that propels spy novels.
Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872 – October 1, 1949) was an American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post. He was a civil rights activist, and along with his mother, Fanny Villard, a founding member of the NAACP.
8 de feb. de 2004 · Feb. 8, 2004. Correction Appended. Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., a pioneer in the development of radar able to see over the horizon, died on Jan. 7 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 87. He died at...
10 de nov. de 2022 · Oswald Garrison Villard (1872–1949) was an American journalist, pacifist, and civil rights advocate. The son of railroad tycoon Henry Villard and and suffragist Fanny Villard (the daughter of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison ) and one of the founders of the Women’s Peace Movement.
26 de ene. de 2021 · Education and Early Radio Experience. This is an interview with Dr. Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr., retired professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, and currently Senior Science Advisor at the Stanford Research Institute. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in literature at Yale University in 1938, Villard began ...
Biography. Oswald G. Villard, Jr. (S'38, A'41, SM'51) was born at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., on September 17, 1916. He received the B.A. degree in English literature from Yale University in 1938, and the E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, in 1943 and 1949, respectively. Dr. Villard has been a member of the staff of the Department of ...
