George Ashley Campbell

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George Ashley Campbell

Born November 27, 1870(1870-11-27)
Died November 10, 1954 (aged 83)
Residence United States
Nationality American
Fields Electrical engineering
Notable awards IEEE Medal of Honor

George Ashley Campbell (November 27, 1870 – November 10, 1954) was a pioneer in developing and applying quantitative mathematical methods to the problems of long-distance telegraphy and telephony.

He graduated from MIT in 1891, and then received a master’s degree from Harvard University in 1893. He then spent spent three years doing graduate work at Göttingen, Vienna, and Paris. In 1897 he went to work for the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). He developed a method for transmitting analog telephony over long distances. Engineer Michael I. Pupin also patented a similar system, and AT&T paid Pupin $435,000 for his patents, so that development would continue without a legal battle.

[edit] Publications

  • Loaded lines in telephonic transmission (1903)
  • Cisoidal oscillations (1911)
  • Physical theory of the electric wave-filter (1922)
  • Fourier integrals for practical applications (1931)
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IEEE Edison Medal
1926-1950

William D. Coolidge (1927) · Frank B. Jewett (1928) · Charles F. Scott (1929) · Frank Conrad (1930) · Edwin W. Rice (1931) · Bancroft Gherardi (1932) · Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1933) · Willis R. Whitney (1934) · Lewis B. Stillwell (1935) · Alex Dow (1936) · Gano Dunn (1937) · Dugald C. Jackson (1938) · Philip Torchio (1939) · George Ashley Campbell (1940) · John B. Whitehead (1941) · Edwin H. Armstrong (1942) · Vannevar Bush (1943) · Ernst Alexanderson (1944) · Philip Sporn (1945) · Lee De Forest (1946) · Joseph Slepian (1947) · Morris E. Leeds (1948) · Karl B. McEachron (1949) · Otto B. Blackwell (1950)
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IEEE Medal of Honor
1926–1950

Greenleaf W. Pickard (1926) · Louis W. Austin (1927) · Jonathan Zenneck (1928) · George W. Pierce (1929) · Peder Oluf Pedersen (1930) · Gustave A. Ferrie (1931) · Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1932) · John Ambrose Fleming (1933) · Stanford C. Hooper (1934) · Balthasar van der Pol (1935) · George Ashley Campbell (1936) · Melville Eastham (1937) · John H. Dellinger (1938) · Albert G. Lee (1939) · Lloyd Espenschied (1940) · Alfred N. Goldsmith (1941) · Albert H. Taylor (1942) · William Wilson (1943) · Haraden Pratt (1944) · Harold H. Beverage (1945) · Ralph Hartley (1946) · Lawrence C. F. Horle (1948) · Ralph Bown (1949) · Frederick Terman (1950)
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