Oswald Garrison Villard, jr.
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Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr. was a prominent professor at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He was born September 17, 1916 and died on January 7, 2004. He was the great-grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the famed abolitionist, and the grandson of Henry Villard, owner of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, who financed the work of Thomas Edison (by coincidence, Villard, jr's academic advisor was Terman, whose advisor was Bush, whose advisor was Kennelly, who worked for Edison). His father was Oswald Garrison Villard, Sr., owner of Post and The Nation, a prominent Pacifist and civil rights activist.
Villard's research contributions are numerous and include many topics in radio and radar engineering. In some contrast to his ancestry, much of his work was in cooperation with the US Military.
His academic advisor at Stanford was Frederick Terman. Villard's PhD students include Mac Van Valkenburg and Kung Chie Yeh (Prof of EE at UIUC).
Awards:
- Received the Department of Defense civilian medal of honor
- Member of the National Academies of Science and Engineering
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Member of the International Scientific Radio Union.
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow of SRI.
- Stanford has established a graduate student fellowship in his name.
[edit] External links
- The transcript of an interview with the IEEE.
- Obituary from the Stanford Report.
- Obituary from SFGate.com
- Villard Graduate Fellowship.
