Lan Jen Chu

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]

• 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.

• Stratton JA, Electromagnetic Theory, Wiley-IEEE, 2007, pp. 464–470.