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SIMON RAMO
SIMON RAMO
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He then joined General Electric Research Laboratories, where he accumulated 25 patents before the age of 30 and was cited as one of America's most outstanding young electrical engineers. Pioneering in the generation of microwave electricity, Si was the first in the United States to produce microwave pulses at the kilowatt level and the first to create the so-called cavity resonator magnetron, an approach later fully developed by others to become the power source for World War II's microwave radar.
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The Defense Department asked Ramo to be the chief engineer for the project, which was to become the country's largest. A contract awarded to Ramo-Wooldridge for systems engineering and technical direction called for leading the development of both the missile and extensive flight test facilities in Florida and a supporting industry to supply the innovative components.
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He wrote many articles about systems engineering, authored and coauthored a number of texts, and delivered numerous invited lectures at universities and National Academy and professional society meetings. He served on the National Science Board, White House Council on Energy R&D, Advisory Council to the Secretary of Commerce, Advisory Council to the Secretary of State for Science and Foreign Affairs, and many advisory committees to the Defense Department and NASA.
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holds the sales record for books on tennis. During his career, and particularly in his later years, Ramo became a cherished mentor to dozens of upcoming scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and business executives.
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