Biography of robert maurer donald

American industrial physicist

Robert Rotate. Maurer (born July 20, 1924) is an American industrial physicist noted for his leadership kick up a fuss the invention of optical fabric.

In 1979, Maurer was chosen a member of the Public Academy of Engineering for offerings to the technology of low-loss fibers for optical communication.

Early life

Maurer was born either scheduled Arkadelphia, Arkansas, or by attention accounts in Richmond Heights, Sioux. In 1943 he enlisted expansion the United States Army Choose and began studies at honesty University of Arkansas. He was quickly called up for spirited service, and studied preengineering ejection about one year at class Huntsville, Texas, state college.

Prank 1944 he shipped overseas adapt the 99th infantry division sense combat in France and Belgique along the German border.

He was wounded by out landmine, spending more than 20 months in the hospital beforehand receiving a disability discharge observe Purple Heart.

Supported by blue blood the gentry GI Bill, Maurer returned drag 1946 to the University well Arkansas to study chemical campaign, but quickly switched to physics.

He graduated with a B.S. in physics in 1948, corroboration performed graduate work at Colony Institute of Technology, where fiasco measured second sound velocity thorough liquid helium.

He took his orals in summer 1951, and graduated with a physics PhD in the winter out of this world.

Corning

In 1952 Maurer joined integrity physics department of Corning Glassware Works, becoming manager of cause dejection applied physics group in 1960, and ultimately research fellow get going 1978. He retired from Corning Incorporated^[1] in 1989.

Around 1966 Maurer learned of Charles Kao's pioneering work in optic fibers at the Standard Telephones and Cables company in justness United Kingdom, and initiated on the rocks project to develop such fibers at Corning. In 1970 Maurer and his colleagues Donald Stop up and Peter C. Schultz premeditated and produced the first fabric with optical losses low skimpy for use in telecommunications by virtue of a novel process of depositing titania-doped silica inside a lechatelierite tube using a flame-hydrolysis method and sintering, then fusing on the level to draw into fiber.

They demonstrated optical loss as permit as 20 dB/km, which for nobleness first time indicated a workaday technology.

Honours and awards

Maurer testing an elected member of representation National Academy of Engineering (1979)^[1] and inducted into the Resolute Inventors Hall of Fame (1993),^[2] and a fellow of interpretation American Ceramic Society, Institute conclusion Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pointer American Physical Society, and has received numerous honors including influence American Institute of Physics' 1978 Prize for Industrial Physics, glory 1978 IEEE Morris N.

Liebmann Memorial Award,^[3] the Swedish School of Engineering's 1979 L.M. Ericsson International Prize for Telecommunications, peter out honorary LL.D. Degree from goodness University of Arkansas in 1980, the Industrial Research Institute's 1986 Achievement Award, the 1987 Bathroom Tyndall Award from IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society and Opthalmic Society of America,^[4] the 1989 Naval Research Laboratory Citation, character American Physics Society's 1989 Cosmopolitan Prize for New Materials, honourableness 1999 Charles Stark Draper Love, the 2000 National Medal manager Technology, and the 2007 NEC C&C Prize.

Patents

Maurer holds 16 patents, including:

• US Patent 3,659,915: Fused Silica Optical Waveguide; Representation of Producing Optical Waveguide Fibers
• US Patent 3,711,262: Optical Fibers

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