Background
Price, Robert was born on July 7, 1929 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Llewellyn Robert and Elise Maclay (Mirkil) Price.
Price, Robert was born on July 7, 1929 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Llewellyn Robert and Elise Maclay (Mirkil) Price.
He majored in physics at Princeton University (1950) and then received his Doctor of Science. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1953).
While working in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratories, he was the co-creator of the Rake receiver, together with Paul Green. The Rake receiver has been described as "historically the most important adaptive receiver for fading multipath channels." They also supervised its deployment in a first-ever spread-spectrum system, the Lincoln F9C (1950). Price and Green also attempted to bounce radar waves off the planet Venus (1958).
With Gordon Pettengill, the two of them worked out a theory of range-Doppler mapping that was used on the Magellan probe mapping of Venus" surface 20 years later.
In 1965 he left the Lincoln Laboratory to join the Sperry Research Center in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He later worked at M/A-COM Government Systems and at Raytheon.
Price was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1985). He was a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (governor information theory group 1967-1970, 77-79, Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee paper award 1998). Member National Academy of Engineering, International Union Radio Science, Franklin Institute, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Jennifer Ann Livingstone Martin, April 19, 1958. Children: Stephen Livingstone, Colin Llewellyn, Edmund Hazleton.