scholarly journals Peter John Bell Clarricoats. 6 April 1932—17 January 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Snowden ◽  
Yang Hao
Keyword(s):  
Optical Waveguides ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Microwave Antenna ◽  
Electromagnetic Propagation ◽  
Microwave Antennas ◽  
Radio Science ◽  
Applied Electromagnetics

Peter Clarricoats made fundamental contributions as a microwave engineer in the fields of applied electromagnetics for microwave and optical waveguides, and microwave antenna feeds. Peter was also a pioneer of optical fibres, and established the theory of electromagnetic propagation on dielectric and ferrite structures. In the course of this, he discovered that such structures can, under some conditions, support ‘backward waves’ and that guides can propagate complex modes. Over 40 years of his academic career, Peter Clarricoats had numerous notable achievements, including pioneering designs for shaped reflectors, reconfigurable reflectors and especially corrugated horns for microwave antennas. The latter are now universally used in satellite ground stations and in spacecraft. He published what became standard reference texts on corrugated horns for microwave antennas, microwave horns and feeds. He served as vice-president of both the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the International Union of Radio Science, and from 1998 to 2000 was chairman of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council. He was appointed a CBE in 1996. He is the recipient of the 2001 Distinguished Achievement Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society, and in 2015 he received the Sir Frank Whittle Gold Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

EARLY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CPAs AND THE SEC*

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Certified Public Accountants ◽  
American Institute ◽  
Public Accountants

The recollections of John L. Carey about the policies and politics in professional circles during the very important period when the Securities Exchange Commission first came into being. Mr. Carey served the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in various capacities from 1925 to 1969, including editor of The Journal of Accountancy and Administrative Vice-president, and received the Institute's gold medal for distinguished service to the profession.

The Pransky interview: Dr Yoky Matsuoka, Vice President Technology, Nest Labs

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 481-486
Author(s):  
Joanne Pransky
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Smoke Detector ◽  
Foundation Engineering ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The University

Purpose – This article is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution, commercialization and challenges of bringing a technological invention to market. Design/methodology/approach – The interviewee is Dr Yoky Matsuoka, the Vice President of Nest Labs. Matsuoka describes her career journey that led her from a semi-professional tennis player who wanted to build a robot tennis buddy, to a pioneer of neurobotics who then applied her multidisciplinary research in academia to the development of a mass-produced intelligent home automation device. Findings – Dr Matsuoka received a BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and in Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. Dr Matsuoka was formerly the Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and Ana Loomis McCandless Professor of Robotics and Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2010, she joined Google X as one of its three founding members. She then joined Nest as VP of Technology. Originality/value – Dr Matsuoka built advanced robotic prosthetic devices and designed complementary rehabilitation strategies that enhanced the mobility of people with manipulation disabilities. Her novel work has made significant scientific and engineering contributions in the combined fields of mechanical engineering, neuroscience, bioengineering, robotics and computer science. Dr Matsuoka was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in which she used the Genius Award money to establish a nonprofit corporation, YokyWorks, to continue developing engineering solutions for humans with physical disabilities. Other awards include the Emerging Inventor of the Year, UW Medicine; IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award; Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; and numerous others. She leads the development of the learning and control technology for the Nest smoke detector and Thermostat, which has saved the USA hundreds of billions of dollars in energy expenses. Nest was sold to Google in 2013 for a record $3.2 billion dollars in cash.

scholarly journals František Nušl, Vice-President of the IAU 1928–1935, and inventor of the circumzenithal telescope

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 197-202
Author(s):  
Petra Hyklová ◽  
Martin Šolc
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Visual Observation ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Scientific Contribution ◽  
International Union ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Gauss Method ◽  
Guiding System

AbstractThe Czech astronomer František Nušl (1867–1951) was professor of mathematics, practical astronomy and geometrical optics at Prague Charles University. His scientific contribution to astronomy consisted mainly of inventing and constructing of new astronomical and geodetical instruments. Together with his friend Josef Jan Frič, founder of the Ondřejov Observatory, he developed and improved the circumzenithal telescope (1899–1903–1906–1922–1932), a portable instrument with a mercury horizon for determining the geodetic position using the Gauss method of equal altitudes. This instrument won the gold medal at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris in 1937. Nušl, independently of Ernst Öpik, invented the wobbling mirror for determining the velocity of meteors by visual observation, and constructed an unique guiding system for the Ondrejov astrograph etc. The organizational activities of Frantisek Nušl were considerably rich, too: He was one of the founders of the Czech Astronomical Society in 1917, in the years 1922–1948 he served as its president. From 1918 until his retirement in 1937 he was the director of the Ondrejov Observatory, 40 km south of capital city of Prague, lectured astronomy at the Prague university and held many popular lectures including regular courses in radio broadcasting. František Nušl was member of several commisions of international scientific unions; he organized the 3rd General Assembly of IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics) in Prague 1927, and in IAU (International Astronomical Union) he was elected as Vice-President in the years 1928–1935. One can conclude that he was the main person who formed the Czech astronomy in the interwar period.

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