Background
Loughren was born in Rensselaer, New York, and received his Bachelor (1923) and Electrical engineer (1925) degrees from Columbia University.
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Arthur Loughren
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Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Career
He then worked at General Electric in its vacuum tube engineering department 1925-1927. Radio engineering department 1927-1929. Radio Corporation of America engineering department 1930-1934.
And radio receiver engineering section 1934-1936.
In 1936 he joined Hazeltine Corporation, during World World War II helped develop IFF equipment for the Navy, and afterwards directed its research on color television He died at his home in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
Loughren was a fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Loughren was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1956.
Achievements
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He received the 1953 SMPTE David Sarnoff Medal Award "for his contributions to the development of compatible color television, including his active work on the principle of constant luminance. Foreign his participation in color video standards activities. And for his guidance in compatible color television", and the 1955 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award "for his leadership and technical contributions in the formulation of the signal specification for compatible color television".
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Nationality
American