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JOHN R. WHINNERY
JOHN R. WHINNERY
Pages 317-322
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According to the introduction to an oral history of his life, he could only afford to attend a local junior college, but greatly impressed his instructors there. They knew he would flourish at UC Berkeley, but funding was beyond his reach.
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He worked the next nine years at General Electric Corporation in Schenectady, New York. His earliest research, on discontinuities in electromagnetic wave devices, led to innovations in microwave amplifiers such as triodes, which were used in World War II communication devices and radar receivers.
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During his four-decade academic career at UC Berkeley he was given the rare honor of being named University Professor, a special designation as a professor-at-large for all University of California campuses that is considered the UC system's most prestigious recognition of scholarship. Only 36 faculty members, 14 of them from UC Berkeley, have been accorded the title since its creation in 1960.
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. In 2007, 20 years after he retired from UC Berkeley, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences dedicated a room in Cory Hall as the John R
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