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Stuart Lawrence Bailey
Stuart Lawrence Bailey
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the development of air navigation radio aids; (2) radio signal propagation measurements, which were applied to the design and location of broadcasting stations; (3)
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investigations. He displayecl exceptional leadership and organizational skills cluring World War II in connection with radio frequency antijamming practices.
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Bailey's outstanding achievements included his work for IBM Corporation on the "radio-electric typewriter" in the late 1930s and his assistance to Bell Telephone Laboratories in its selection of the National Raclio Astronomy Observatory site in Green Bank, West Virginia. During the 1950s he worked on the Dual-ex system of mobile radio teletype digital record communication (the genesis of the Teleproducts Test Equipment Division, which has become a division of Atlantic Research Corporation)
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from 1953 to 1954 and a member of the board of the Engineer's Joint Council from 1964 to 1966. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973 for "outstanding pioneering work in radio signal propagation measurements and their application to station design and location." Other honors bestowed on him included the Outstanding Achievement Awarcl from the University of Minnesota in 1956 for "leaclership in development of ractio and television." The university further recognized him as a "worldwide leacler in the development of radio and television, ever striving to perfect the stanclards of radio engineering." lust before being hospitalized in 1984, Stuart Bailey attended the IEEE's centennial celebration in Boston, where he received the Centennial Gold Mecial Award for "extraorctinary achievement deserving of special recognition." Bailey was a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, anti Eta Kappa Nu.
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This tribute is based on biographical materials that appeared in the professional, technical, and general press. It was written by the NAE Membership Office under the editorial direction of the academy's home secretary.
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