Louis Alan Hazeltine
Louis Alan Hazeltine (August 7, 1886 – May 24, 1964) was an engineer and physicist, the inventor of the Neutrodyne circuit, and the Hazeltine-Fremodyne Superregenerative circuit. He was the founder of the Hazeltine Corporation.
Louis Alan Hazeltine | |
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Born | August 7, 1886 |
Died | May 24, 1964 77) | (aged
Nationality | United States |
Citizenship | USA |
Alma mater | Stevens Institute of Technology |
Known for | Neutrodyne circuit |
Scientific career | |
Fields | physics |
He was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1886 and attended the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey majoring in electrical engineering. He graduated in 1906 and accepted a job with General Electric corporation.
Hazeltine returned to Stevens to teach, eventually becoming chair of the electrical engineering department in 1917.
The following year he became a consultant for the United States Navy. The Navy job eventually parlayed into a position as an advisor to the U.S. government on radio broadcasting regulation, and later, a position on the National Defense Research Committee during World War II.[1]
Hazeltine was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1936.
References
- "Alan Hazeltine". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
Further reading
- "Adventures in Cybersound: Louis Alan Hazeltine : 1886 - 1964"
- Reiman, Dick, "Scanning the Past: A History of Electrical Engineering from the Past: Louis Alan Hazeltine", Copyright 1993 IEEE. Reprinted with permission from the IEEE publication, "Scanning the Past" which covers a reprint of an article appearing in the Proceedings of the IEEE Vol. 81, No. 4, April 1993.
External links
- "The Neutrodyne Radio", Arcane Radio Trivia, Tuesday, October 2, 2007