Background
Barker, Richard Clark was born on March 27, 1926 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of George Myron and Elizabeth (Leeds) Barker.
Electrical engineering educator
Barker, Richard Clark was born on March 27, 1926 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of George Myron and Elizabeth (Leeds) Barker.
Bachelor of Engineering, Yale University, 1950; Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1955.
Electronics engineer, Airadio, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, 1947;
control systems engineer, Allen D. Cardwell Company, Plainville, Connecticut, 1953-1953;
faculty, Yale University, New Haven, since 1952;
professor electrical engineering, Yale University, New Haven, since 1970. Consultant International Business Machines Corporation, 1973-1974, AMP Inc., since 1972, Hitachi Metals, Ltd., since 1980, World Bank Key Universities Development Program, Puerto Rico China, 1990. Consultant, member science advising committee Echlin Manufacturing Company, since 1974.
Visiting scientist fellow Japan Society forPromotion Science, 1972.
Served with United States Navy, 1944-1946. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1st prize for paper 1961). Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Magnetics Society (achievement award 1994), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Yale Engineering Association (Meritorious Service award 1994), Sigma Xi.
Married Sela Wadhams, September 4, 1948. Children: Sela, Kirtland.