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Stephen O. Rice
Stephen O. Rice
Pages 299-304
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It was during his senior year that he met Inez Biersdorf, who two years later became his wife and lifelong companion. The academic year 1929~30 was spent in Pasadena, California, where Steve undertook graduate studies in physics at the California Institute of Technology.
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In the depths of the depression, he returned for a year to the California Institute of Technology where he undertook further graduate studies while working on the Bateman Manuscript Project. This group prepared the first modern comprehensive series of volumes on the integral transforms and transcendental special functions of applied mathematics.
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The paper has been of utmost importance in communication theory, ocean engineering, material engineering, aircraft design and analysis, and many other fields of technology where random phenomena play a significant role. That today, forty-six years later, this work is cited fifty times or more a year in papers from a dozen different fields is testimony to its enduring contribution.
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Highly skilled in mathematics and appreciative of the needs of rigor, yet motivated by real world problems and blessed with great originality and physical insight, Steve Rice was the ideal theoretical engineer. After his retirement from Bell in 1972, Steve and his wife moved to La JolIa, California, where he joined the staff of the University of California with the title research physicist in electrical engineering and computer sciences.
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As already noted, he was honored with a D.Sc from Oregon State in ~ 961. He received the National Telecommunications Conference Outstanding Contribution Award in 1974.
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