Karl Spangenberg

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Spouse
(m. 1943)
ChildrenKristin L. Spangenberg,
Eric Karl Spangenberg,
Karen Spangenberg,
Karla Lane,
Kathy Spangenberg,
Rudy Spangenberg
Karl Rudolph Spangenberg
Alma materCase Institute of Technology
Ohio State University
Spouse
(m. 1943)
ChildrenKristin L. Spangenberg,
Eric Karl Spangenberg,
Karen Spangenberg,
Karla Lane,
Kathy Spangenberg,
Rudy Spangenberg
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
Sociocultural evolution
InstitutionsStanford University
Office of Naval Research
Instituto Technologica de Aeronautica
Doctoral advisorWilliam Littell Everitt
Doctoral studentsWillis Harman
Robert Helliwell
Chih-Tang Sah

Karl Spangenberg was an American engineer, social scientist, academic, futurist, writer, and visionary.

Spangenberg was a member of the American Physical Society and became an IRE (now IEEE) Associate in 1934, Senior Member in 1945, and a Fellow in 1949.[1]

Publications

Spangenberg authored "Vacuum Tubes" (1948)[2] and "Fundamentals of Electron Devices"[3] and edited "Electromagnetics in Space: Antenna Considerations as Related to Space Communications" (1965).[4]

Education

He received the B.S. and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Case Institute of Technology, in 1932 and 1933, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1937.[5]

His PhD adviser was William Littell Everitt,[6] a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.[7]

Career

Honors

References

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