Ping King Tien
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Dr. Ping King Tien 田炳耕 (August 2, 1919 - ) is an electrical engineer noted for his contributions to microwave amplifiers and integrated optical circuits.
Tien was born in Chekiang (Zhejiang), China, and received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Central University (1942), and his masters (1948) and PhD (1951) from Stanford University. He then joined Bell Labs to work with John Robinson Pierce, eventually becoming head of Electronics Research (1959), Electron-Physics Research (1966), Micro-Electronics Research (1980), High Speed Electronics Research (1984), and fellow in the Photonics Research Laboratory (1989).
Tien is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, academician of Academia Sinica, fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Optical Society of America, and member of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He received the 1979 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award "for contributions to integrated optics technology."
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- Academia Sinica entry
- National Academy of Engineering entry
- Correspondence, Proceedings of the IRE, volume 40, issue 6, pages 728-729. June 1952.
