Background
Thoma, Manfred Hubert was born on February 24, 1929 in Neumarkt, Germany. Son of Hubert and Friederike (Meyer) Thoma.
Electrical engineering educator
Thoma, Manfred Hubert was born on February 24, 1929 in Neumarkt, Germany. Son of Hubert and Friederike (Meyer) Thoma.
Engineer, OHM Polytechnic, Nürnberg, Germany, 1954. Diploma in engineering, University Darmstadt, Germany, 1957. Doctor of Engineering Darmstadt, Germany, 1963.
Doctor of Science (honorary), City University, London, 1991. Doctor of Engineering (honorary), University Bochum, 1992. Doctor of Engineering (honorary), University Helsinki, 1998.
Science assistant, U. Darmstadt, 1957-1964; lecturer, U. Darmstadt, 1965-1967; visiting professor, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1964-1965; professor electrical engineering, U. Hannover, Germany, since 1967; department head, U. Hannover, Germany, 1969-1971; dean engineering, U. Hannover, Germany, 1971-1972. Visiting professor Kyoto (Japan) U., 1977, 85. Board directors BIOTECHNICA (world biggest fair in biotechnology), Hannover.
(Control Theory for Linear Systems by H. L. Trentelman, An...)
President International Federation Automatic Control, Geneva, 1984-1987. Member Braunschweig Science Society, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Married Elisabeth Franczok, 1955. Children: Robert, Eberhard, Susanne.