Frederic Richard Morgenthaler
Frederic R. Morgenthaler | |
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Born | Frederic Richard Morgenthaler March 12, 1933 Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | June 21, 2015 Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 82)
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Spouse | Barbara Pullen Morgenthaler |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering |
Institutions |
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Thesis | On the general theory of microwave interactions with ellipsoidal ferrimagnetic insulators (1960) |
Doctoral advisor | Lan Jen Chu |
Frederic Richard Morgenthaler (March 12, 1933 — June 21, 2015) was an American electrical engineer and academician, who was a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During his tenure, he was the director of Microwave and Quantum Magnetics Group at Research Laboratory of Electronics.
Biography
[edit]Frederic Richard Morgenthaler was born on March 12, 1933 in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He received bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956. Working on the microwave ferrite devices during his service as lieutenant at the United States Air Force from 1957 to 1959, he has subsequently completed his PhD studies on this topic under Lan Jen Chu at MIT in 1960. He has joined the faculty of MIT at the same year.[1][2]
During his tenure at MIT, Morgenthaler led the Microwave and Quantum Magnetics Group and was a member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, the Center for Material Sciences and Engineering and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He held the Cecil H. Green Professorship from 1984 to 1986. Morgenthaler's research has focused on microwave magnetics and the electrodynamics.[1][2] His 1958 work on velocity modulation[3] has pioneered the field of time-varying photonics and metamaterials.[4][5] Being the author of the textbook The Power and Beauty of Electromagnetic Fields (2011), he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in electromagnetic theory, antennas, circuit theory, and semiconductor electronics. He was a fellow member of the IEEE.[1]
Retiring in 1996, Morgenthaler died on 21 June 2015 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He was survived by his wife Barbara Pullen Morgenthaler, his two daughters and four grandchildren.[1]
Selected publications
[edit]Textbooks
[edit]- The Power and Beauty of Electromagnetic Fields (2011)
Journal articles
[edit]- Morgenthaler, F. R. (1958). "Velocity modulation of electromagnetic waves". IRE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 6 (2): 167–172. Bibcode:1958ITMTT...6..167M. doi:10.1109/TMTT.1958.1124533.
- Morgenthaler, F. R. (1960). "Survey of ferromagnetic resonance in small ferrimagnetic ellipsoids". Journal of Applied Physics. 31 (5): S95–S97. Bibcode:1960JAP....31S..95M. doi:10.1063/1.1984617.
- Matthews, H.; Morgenthaler, F. R. (1964). "Phonon-pumped spin-wave instabilities". Physical Review Letters. 13 (21): 614–616. Bibcode:1964PhRvL..13..614M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.614.
- Rezende, S. M.; Morgenthaler, F. R. (1969). "Magnetoelastic waves in time-varying magnetic fields. I. Theory". Journal of Applied Physics. 40 (2): 524–536. Bibcode:1969JAP....40..524R. doi:10.1063/1.1657433.
- Morgenthaler, F. (1977). "Magnetostatic waves bound to a DC field gradient". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 13 (5): 1252–1254. Bibcode:1977ITM....13.1252M. doi:10.1109/TMAG.1977.1059532.
- Rappaport, C. M.; Morgenthaler, F. R. (1987). "Optimal source distribution for hyperthermia at the center of a sphere of muscle tissue". IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 35 (12): 1322–1327. Bibcode:1987ITMTT..35.1322R. doi:10.1109/TMTT.1987.1133855.
- How, H.; O’Handley, R. C.; Morgenthaler, F. R. (1989). "Soliton theory for realistic magnetic domain-wall dynamics". Physical Review B. 40 (7): 4808–4817. Bibcode:1989PhRvB..40.4808H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.40.4808.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "In Memoriam: Frederic R. Morgenthaler". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 57 (5): 183. October 2015. doi:10.1109/MAP.2015.2470661.
- ^ a b "Frederic Morgenthaler, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, dies at 82". news.mit.edu. July 6, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
- ^ Morgenthaler, F. R. (1958). "Velocity modulation of electromagnetic waves". IRE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 6 (2): 167–172. Bibcode:1958ITMTT...6..167M. doi:10.1109/TMTT.1958.1124533.
- ^ Galiffi, Emanuele; Tirole, Romain; Yin, Shixiong; et al. (2022). "Photonics of time-varying media". Advanced Photonics. 4 (1): 014002. arXiv:2111.08640. Bibcode:2022AdPho...4a4002G. doi:10.1117/1.AP.4.1.014002.
- ^ Ramaccia, Davide; Toscano, Alessandro; Bilotti, Filiberto (2020). "Light propagation through metamaterial temporal slabs: reflection, refraction, and special cases". Optics Letters. 45 (20): 5836–5839. arXiv:1911.04280. Bibcode:2020OptL...45.5836R. doi:10.1364/OL.402856. PMID 33057297.
- 1933 births
- 2015 deaths
- Writers from Shaker Heights, Ohio
- Scientists from Cleveland
- Engineers from Ohio
- Writers from Cleveland
- American electrical engineers
- Microwave engineers
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- American engineering writers
- 20th-century American engineers
- 21st-century American engineers
- American electronics engineers
- Electrical engineering academics
- Air Force Research Laboratory people
- American materials scientists
- American textbook writers
- Fellows of the IEEE