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August Uno Lamm
Pages 144-151

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From page 145...
... This led to his pursuit of a technical education and his subsequent successful career as a clistinguished engineer of world renown. His early education was obtained at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, from which he received an M.S.
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From page 146...
... links to overcome adverse effects of phase angle variations and circulating vars on large integrated alternating-current systems. ItwouIcl provide the inspiration and incentive for others to develop the solid-state technology that would be a successor to the mercury plasma valves that were the result of this early work.
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From page 147...
... Moreover, there were significant political problems, because the project involved entities of different regions of the western states and of different ownership format. In all of this Uno Lamm filled the role of technical consultant, political adviser, and peacemaker.
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From page 148...
... Perhaps he little knewwhen he wrote that early thesis and coined the word transductor that it would lead him to apply the word transistor casually to a similar device while making a speech on this technology. When William Shockley received the Nobel Prize for the invention of the transistor and applied this name to it, he was reported to have said that he had heard "some Swede" use the word in a technical presentation and thought it aptly applied to his new discovery.
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From page 149...
... Awards, medals, and similar recognitions were numerous. They included the Gold Medal of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering, Knighthood of Sweden's Royal Order of Vasa, France's Ordre du Merite pour la Recherche et I'Invention, and the IEEE Lamme Medal.
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... And above all he was a warm and true friend. We salute August Uno Lamm.
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