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Samuel Silver
Pages 267-270

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... He thenjoined the antenna group of the Radiation Laboratory, MIT, and remained there until that laboratory closed at the end of World War II. Following a year in the Antenna Research Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory, he was appointed Lecturer and then Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California at Berkeley, becoming Professor in 1950.
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... included membership on the Awards Board and several assignments on the WESCON technical program committees. His continuing service for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences was through the International Radio Scientific Union (URSI)
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... He was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, of the American Geophysical Union, and of the American Physical Society. He was a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1953 for his work on scattering and diffraction of electromagnetic waves and again in 1960 for his research in physics of the upper atmosphere.
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