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VICTOR H. RUMSEY
VICTOR H. RUMSEY
Pages 302-307
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Rumsey became supervisor of the laboratory in 1948 and had a major influence on its subsequent development. He was a brilliant theoretician and inspiring teacher and attracted a large number of excellent graduate students, mostly veterans of World War II.
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In 1954 Rumsey moved to the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign to head the Antenna Laboratory there, where he led the successful development of frequency independent antennas. In 1957 he was persuaded by John Whinnery to join him at the University of California, Berkeley, where he stayed until 1965, when he was approached by Henry Booker to join the recently formed Department of Applied Electrophysics at the new University of California, San Diego (founded in 1960)
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His designs and concepts have been applied in the Parkes 64-meter dish radio telescope in Australia and the Arecibo 305-meter dish in Puerto Rico. A more recent application of his concepts is in the wideband feeds for the Allen Telescope Array at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in California.
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, "In recognition of his oustanding leadership in research and graduate education which enabled the Antenna Laboratory (now the ElectroScience Laboratory) to expand into an institution whose excellence in electromagnetic research and its application is internationally recognized"; and the IEEE John Kraus Antenna Award (2004)
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