George Clark Southworth (August 24, 1890 – July 6, 1972), who published as G. C. Southworth, was a prominent Americanradio engineer best known for his role in the development of waveguides in the early 1930s.[1][2]
George Clark Southworth
Southworth at Bell Labs in 1943, in front of the experimental waveguide line he used during the 1930s
In 1931 he began to study wave propagation in dielectric rods, by early 1932 observed wave propagation in a water-filled copper pipe, and by May 1933 transmitted waves through air-filled copper pipes up to 20 feet in length. (He later recalled that the first message sent through a waveguide was "Send money.") After he constructed a 5-in.-diameter waveguide with a length of 875 feet, the project was moved to the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, where he spent the rest of his career until retirement in 1955.
Principles and applications of wave-guide transmission, New York, Van Nostrand [1950], xi, 689 p. illus. 24 cm. Bell Telephone Laboratories series. LCCN 50009834.
Forty years of Radio Research, 1962.
Referencesedit
^. Physics Today. 25 (10): 59. October 1972. doi:10.1063/1.3071065. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
^Packard, Karle S. (September 1984). "The Origin of Waveguides: A Case of Multiple Rediscovery" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. MTT-32 (9): 961–969. Bibcode:1984ITMTT..32..961P. CiteSeerX10.1.1.532.8921. doi:10.1109/tmtt.1984.1132809. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
IEEE biography
James Brittain, "George C. Southworth," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 81, No. 7, July 1993.
L. Van Atta, "A history of early microwave antenna development", IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Newsletter, volume 23, issue 5, October 1981, pages 10–14.
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