Background
Guillemin was born in 1898, in Milwaukee, and received his Bachelor of Surgery (1922) and S.M. (1924) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively.
Guillemin was born in 1898, in Milwaukee, and received his Bachelor of Surgery (1922) and S.M. (1924) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively.
He then attended the University of Munich, under Arnold Sommerfeld, on a Saltonstall Traveling Fellowship.
He was granted his doctorate in 1926, whereupon he returned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an instructor, becoming Assistant Professor in 1928, Associate Professor in 1936, and Professor in Electrical Communications in In 1960, he was appointed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Edwin Sibley Webster Chair of Electrical Engineering, a title he held until his retirement in On the invitation of Edward L. Bowles in 1928, Guillemin was invited to assist in the development of a communications option for undergraduate students. In this effort, he revised and expanded a subject that included communication transmission lines, telephone repeaters, balancing networks, and filter theory. Thus began his lifelong career of developing and refining linear, lumped, finite, passive, and bilateral networks in the sphere of teaching.
Guillemin was appointed consultant to the Microwave Committee of the National Defense Research Committee in 1940.
As such, he spent about half of his time consulting with groups in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory. He took over administrative responsibility of the Communications Option in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering, in During his career, Guillemin influenced many undergraduate and graduate students who went on to contribute greatly in industry and academia.
Included in the list are his graduate students Robert Fano and Thomas Stockham. His professional contributions were recognized internationally with numerous honors and awards.
Memberships Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers Foreign Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts Honors 1961 – Institute of Radio Engineers Medal of Honor from the Institute of Radio Engineers 1962 – American Institute of Electrical Engineers Education Medal 1960 - Appointed the first Edwin Sibley Webster Professor.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.