Lan Jen Chu
Lan Jen Chu | |
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Chu c. 1952 | |
| Born | August 24, 1913 |
| Died | July 25, 1973 (aged 59) Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Awards | Fellow of APS Fellow of IRE |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Transmission and radiation of electromagnetic waves in hollow-pipes and horns (1938) |
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Lan Jen Chu (August 24, 1913 – July 25, 1973) was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chu is noted for his work on the fundamental limitations for small antennas, also known as Chu–Harrington limit.
Biography
[edit]Lan Jen Chu was born on August 24, 1913, in Huai'an in the Jiangsu province of China.[1] He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1934 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical power, and went on to receive Master of Science and Doctorate of Science degrees in electrical engineering from MIT in 1935 and 1938, respectively.[1] Chu was with the Radiation Laboratory at MIT from 1942 to 1946 and with the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1947 to 1973.[2] He died on July 25, 1973, in Lexington, Massachusetts, and was survived by his wife Grace Feng and three children.[3][4]
During World War II, Chu supervised research at MIT of many special antennas for use in radar and telecommunication applications.[1] In 1945, he acted as a United States Secretary of War and headed the advisory specialist group to United States Armed Forces in China. For his services, he received the President's Certificate of Merit.[3] He has also authored three technical books, two of which were with Richard Adler and Robert Fano in the area of electromagnetics.[5] Lan Jen Chu was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Radio Engineers,[1] as well as a member of Academia Sinica.[6]
Publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Adler RB, Chu LJ, Fano RM, Electromagnetic Energy Transmission and Radiation, MIT, 1968.
- Fano RM, Chu LJ, Adler RB, Electromagnetic Fields, Energy, and Forces, MIT, 1968.
- Stratton JA, Morse PM, Chu LJ, Hunter RA, Elliptic Cylinder and Spheroidal Wave Functions: Including Tables of Separation Constants and Coefficients, Wiley-MIT, 1941.
- Stratton JA, Morse PM, Chu LJ, Little JDC, Corbató FJ, Spheroidal Wave Functions: Including Tables of Separation Constants and Coefficients, MIT, 1956.
Book chapters
[edit]- Stratton JA, Electromagnetic Theory, Wiley-IEEE, 2007, pp. 464–470.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Biography - Lan Jen Chu". IRE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 6 (3). IEEE: 249. July 1958. Bibcode:1958ITMTT...6..249.. doi:10.1109/TMTT.1958.1124553.
- ^ "MIT Museum Nomination". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on April 21, 2018. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
- ^ a b "Dr. Lan Jen Chu, 59, M.I.T. Engineer Dies". The New York Times. July 28, 1973. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ "Obituary for Lan Jen Chu". The Boston Globe. July 27, 1973. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ "Lan Jen Chu". The MIT Press. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
- ^ "L.J. Chu". Academia Sinica. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
| International | |
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- 1913 births
- 1973 deaths
- Chinese electrical engineers
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- National Chiao Tung University (Shanghai) alumni
- Fellows of the IEEE
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- American microwave engineers
- 20th-century Chinese engineers
- Members of Academia Sinica
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- American electrical engineers
- MIT School of Engineering faculty
- Scientists from Huai'an
- Educators from Huai'an
- Chinese telecommunications engineers
- American telecommunications engineers
- 20th-century American engineers