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JOHN R. PIERCE 1910 –2002. BY EDWARD E. DAVID. JOHN PIERCE, the “father” of modern communication satellites, died in April 2002. Three of his former colleagues wrote the following: “Above all, John Pierce was a man of strict integrity. He knew the difference between speculation, wishful thinking, and factual evidence.
John R. Pierce. John Robinson Pierce (* 27.März 1910 in Des Moines, Iowa; † 2. April 2002 in Sunnyvale, Kalifornien) war ein vielseitiger US-amerikanischer Ingenieur.. Seine Arbeitsgebiete umfassten Hochfrequenztechnik, Telekommunikation, Akustik und Psychoakustik.Er beaufsichtigte die Bell-Labs-Gruppe, die den ersten funktionierenden Halbleiter-Verstärker entwickelte, und auf Anregung des ...
Pierce's pioneering work was the catalyst for almost every significant development in space-based telecommunication and satellite technology. During the 1950s, Pierce proposed the foundations for unmanned passive and active communication satellites. Though his ideas were initially resisted, Pierce was able to persuade NASA in 1960 to build and ...
John Robinson Pierce nació en Des Moines (Iowa) en 1910. De joven fue aficionado a la fotografía haciendo fotos a planeadores construidos por él. Quería estudiar ingeniería química para trabajar en Eastman Kodak.Su padre era vendedor de sombreros, por lo que la familia Pierce tuvo que mudarse primero a St. Paul (Minnesota), y después a ...
JOHN R. PIERCE (1910-2002) INTERVIEWED BY HARRIETT LYLE April 16, 23, and 27, 1979 ARCHIVES CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Pasadena, California Subject area Engineering, electrical Abstract An interview in three sessions in April 1979 with John R. Pierce, often referred to
John R. Pierce returned to Norfolk 27 February 1965. She reported to Commandant of the 3d Naval District in Brooklyn, N.Y., for duty as a reserve training ship and began a schedule of 2-week training cruises for naval reservists. She continued this duty into 1967. John R. Pierce received one battle star for service during the Korean War.
In April of 2002, the engineering world lost one of its great visionaries. John Robinson Pierce, whose career spanned six decades, was at one time one of the best known figures in the engineering field. He became famous not only for his considerable technical accomplishments, but as a popularizer of scientific knowledge in the media and through his own voluminous publications. In 1992, when he ...
