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Richard W. Damon
Richard W. Damon
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Winning a full scholarship to Harvard, he felt the strongly competitive academic pressures there incleecI, Frederic de Hoffman, who along with Edwarc} Teller conceived the hydrogen bomb in 1959, was his roommate. Following the shock of Pearl Harbor, they switched from chemistry to physics, en cl persuaded l.
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The thesis "in addition to the improver} theory developed at Bell Labs," Dick noted, "established the fundamental high power limitation of ferrite devices, such as isolators and circulators, and also pointed the way to new nonlinear devices such as frequency doublers, power limiters and, a few years later, a form of parametric amplifier." Major portions of his landmark thesis have been presented in Reviews of Modern Physics, vol.
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He found it to be "a challenging, exciting experience." Dick next joined the newly formed Sperry Rand Research Center in Sudbury, Massachusetts, at the invitation of Karl Willenbrock, a Harvard faculty member and consultant and the 1969 IEEE president, and Roger Newman, the center's first manager, solicl-state sciences. Dick progressed rapidly to become the director of the Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Through these activities Dick earned increasing recognition, serving on the IEEE's board of directors in 1977-1978 and later on the IEEE fellow selections committee. He earned respect too: a 1979 letter from Bruno Weinschel, who became the IEEE president in 1986, states, "T believe you are one of the most capable and knowledgeable directors I have ever seen....
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While living in Schenectady, New York, he served the First Methodist Church as chairman of the Education Commission and the board of stewards, and subsequently he was the lay leader, the top lay position in the church. In his later years he served as a trustee of the West Concord Union Church.
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Giving of himself to his research; to his management responsibilities; to his professional societies; and to his community, church, and family, Dick Damon accomplished much in his life, contributing right up to the end. He died on February 15, 1991.
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