Background
Karnaugh, Maurice was born on October 4, 1924 in New York City. Son of George Victor and Fannie (Weinstein) Karnaugh.
engineer physicist university professor
Karnaugh, Maurice was born on October 4, 1924 in New York City. Son of George Victor and Fannie (Weinstein) Karnaugh.
Karnaugh studied mathematics and physics at City College of New York (1944-1948) and transferred to Yale University to complete his Bachelor of Science (1950) and Doctor of Philosophy in physics with a thesis on The Theory of Magnetic Resonance and Lambda-Type Doubling in Nitric-Oxide (1952).
Master of Science Karnaugh worked at Bell Labs (1952-1966), developing the Karnaugh map (1954) as well as patents for Protein-Calorie Malnutrition encoding and magnetic logic circuits and coding. He later worked at International Business Machines Corporation"s Federal Systems Division in Gaithersburg (1966-1970) and at the International Business Machines Corporation Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1970-1989), studying multistage interconnection networks. Karnaugh was elected an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow in 1976, and held an adjunct position at Polytechnic University of New York at the Westchester campus from 1980 to 1999.
He has been married to the former Linn Blank Weil since 1970.
With United States Army, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Member International Council Computer Communications (governor emeritus since 1988).
Married Linn Blank; children: Robert Victor, Paul Joseph.