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JAMES S. THORP
Pages 318-321

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... . We started working together at the American Electric Power Service Corporation in New York City when Jim joined AEP on a sabbatical leave from Cornell in 1976.
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... He became an IEEE fellow in 1989, and was elected to the NAE in 1996. He was selected for the 2001 Power Engineering Society Career Service Award and the 2006 IEEE Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, and in 2008 he and I jointly received the Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering.
From page 321...
... His life experiences gave him a wealth of stories that sounded improbable but in fact were true. His most famous episodes concerned his time in the New York−New Jersey area, including an experience involving theft of a car battery and spare tires (a story repeated so many times that many of his friends can repeat it)


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