George Wilhelm Stroke, Croatian physicist, educator, consultant. Recipient Humboldt prize, 1978. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Optical Society of America, American Physical Society, American Society Laser Medicine and Surgery.
Background
Stroke, George Wilhelm was born on July 29, 1924 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Came to the United States, 1952, naturalized in the United States, 1957. Naturalized in Federal Republic of Germany, 1988.
Son of Elias and Edith Mechner (Silvers) Stroke.
Education
Bachelor of Science, University Montpellier, France, 1942. IngDipl, Institute Optics, University Paris, 1949. Dr ès Science in Physics, Sorbonne University, Paris, 1960.
Career
Member research staff and defense research staff Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952-1963, lecturer electrical engineering, 1960-1963. Assistant research professor physics Boston University, 1956-1957. North Atlantic Treaty Organization research fellow University Paris, 1959-1960.
Professor electrical engineering, head electro-optical science laboratories University Michigan, 1963-1967. Professor electrical science and medical biophysics State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1967-1979. Member corporation management staff Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH, Munich, West Germany, 1980-1984, chief scientist space division West Germany, 1984-1986, chief scientist corporation headquarters-development West Germany, 1986-1989.
Senior advisor corporation strategy and business development Daimler-Benz AG/Deutsche Aerospace Corporation, 1989-1991. Visiting professor Harvard University Medical School, 1970-1973, Technology University Munich, 1978-1979, Keio University Medical School, Tokyo, 1992-1993, faculty science and technical, 1993-1995. Advisor laser task force United States Army Air Force Systems Command, 1964.
Government science consultant United States and abroad, since 1964. Consultant National Aeronautics and Space Administration Electronics Research Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1966. Member commission I, International Radio Science Union, National Academy of Sciences, since 1965.
Consultant American Cancer Society, since 1972, Research and Development Corporation, 1978-1979. Member National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Task Force on Ultrasonic Imaging, 1973-1974. Member United States House of Representatives Select.
Committee, photograph evidence panel on President J.F. Kennedy assassination, 1978-1979. Member Max-Planck Society, 1982-2000, Bavarian Union Business Advisory Council, since 1987. Member board advisors Max-Planck Society Institute Quantum Optics, 1986-1995, Institute Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Witten/Herdecke, since 1993, Bavarian Academy Foreign Trade, since 1993, Society German Natural Scientists and Medical Drs., 1995-2000.
Director North Atlantic Treaty Organization-Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development Study Group on Lasers, 1989. Invited speaker in field. Advisor to global corporations and governments.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Optical Society of America, American Physical Society, American Society Laser Medicine and Surgery.