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Jacobsen, Edward Hastings was born on January 2, 1926 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. Son of Edward H. and Marie (Thomas) Jacobsen.
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Edward Hastings Jacobsen, American Physicist. Achievements include patent for jaming enemy radar; notable findings that sound waves can be generated by piezoelectric crystals at ultra microwave frequencies and also amplified by electrons in solids; co-founder of a lens which could provide atomic resolution when used in an electron microscope.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954.
Career
Research physicist, General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, 1954-1960; professor physics, U. Rochester, New York, 1961-1991; professor emeritus, U. Rochester, New York, since 1991; consultant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln laboratories, Lexington, Massachusetts, since 1976. Visiting professor biophysics biology department Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1967-1968, ColumbiaU., New York City, 1968-1969.
Achievements
Membership
With United States Navy, 1944-1946. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Sigma Xi (honorary).
Connections
Married Victoria Thomas, June 29, 1952(deceased November 1991).
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Episcopalian