Background
Born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, he moved to Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a professor of German.
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Percival Wyeth
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He was an exchange student at the University of Munich (1928-1929) and attended Cornell University (1929-1930), before completing his graduate studies at University of Wisconsin–Madison (1932) where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy on the thesis Characteristics of Vacuum Tube Circuits Having Distributed Constants at Ultra-Radio Frequencies advised by Edward Bennett and subsequently was a research assistant (1932-1934).
Career
He published twelve books and over three hundred articles in his area, as well as mentored one hundred doctoral dissertations. He earned an Bachelor of Arts (1927) and South.M. (1929) degree in physics from the University of Rochester. King was an instructor and assistant professor in physics at Lafayette College (1934-1937), and a Guggenheim Fellow overseas (1937, 1958).
He joined Harvard University as an instructor (1938), as assistant professor (1939), associate (1942), and as Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics (1946-1972, taken over by his former student Tai Tsun Wu), and professor emeritus (1972).
He resided at Winchester, Massachusetts, and wrote the autobiography A Manitoba of the 20th Century. His research group at Harvard spent the 1940s and 1950s developing the theory of antenna (radio), using the cylindrical antenna as a boundary value problem subject to Maxwell"s equations.
Also, scattering and diffraction of electromagnetic waves from spheres, cylinders, strips, and disks, conducted within earth, under water or in tissue. King is responsible for the inverted-F antenna, the most widely used antenna in mobile phones.
However, he did not develop this antenna for that purpose.
Rather the intended use was missile telemetry.
Achievements
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, Life fellow fellow of the American Physical Society fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Service Award from the University of Wisconsin (1973) 1983 Prize Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility Centennial Medal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1985) Harold Pender Award from The Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania (1986) Distinguished Achievement Award of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1997) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Graduate Teaching Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1997) Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society (2001). Professor R.W.P. King Education Fund (1972).
Membership
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Nationality
United States
Awards
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Guggenheim Fellowship; IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award; Harold Pender Award Graduate Teaching Award; Arts and Sciences; Distinguished Service Award IEEE Fellow, Life fellow fellow of the American Physical Society fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Service Award from the University of Wisconsin (1973) 1983 Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility Centennial Medal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1985) Harold Pender Award from The Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania (1986) Distinguished Achievement Award of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1997) IEEE Graduate Teaching Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1997) Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2001). Professor R.W.P. King Education Fund (1972)Guggenheim Fellowship; IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award; Harold Pender Award Graduate Teaching Award; Arts and Sciences; Distinguished Service Award IEEE Fellow, Life fellow fellow of the American Physical Society fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Service Award from the University of Wisconsin (1973) 1983 Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility Centennial Medal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1985) Harold Pender Award from The Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania (1986) Distinguished Achievement Award of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1997) IEEE Graduate Teaching Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1997) Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2001). Professor R.W.P. King Education Fund (1972)