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Herman Paul Schwan
Pages 270-273

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... student, he found himself under a political cloud because of his liberal political views. He served briefly in the Reich Labor Service, an organization that combined quasimilitary training and forced labor in an attempt to rehabilitate "politically immature" individuals.
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... He joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1950. In 1952, he was appointed head of the Electromedical Division of the Moore School, and, in 1961, he became chairman of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Group on Biomedical Electronic Engineering.
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... Schwan held many leadership positions in the biomedical engineering sections of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering and Institute for Radio Engineering, the two engineering societies that eventually merged to form the IEEE. He was a founding member of the Biophysical Society, Bioelectromagnetics Society, and Biomedical Engineering Society and chairman of the American National Standards Institute committee that developed the first limit for human exposure to radio-frequency energy in the United States.
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