Henry G. Booker

Henry George Booker
Born (1910-12-10)December 10, 1910
Essex, England
Died November 1, 1988(1988-11-01) (aged 77)
La Jolla, California, U.S.
Nationality American
Fields engineering, radiophysics
Institutions Cambridge University
Cornell University
University of California, San Diego
Alma mater Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor J. A. Ratcliffe
Doctoral students William E. Gordon
Donald T. Farley
Ken Bowles
Known for worldwide authority on radio wave propagation
Notable awards Arctowski Medal (1984)

Henry G. Booker (December 14, 1910 – November 1, 1988) was an American physicist and engineer. Booker was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[1] He was head of panel on stratospheric pollution.[2] He was a head of the Maths Group at Worth focused on radio propagation.[3] He headed theoretical research at the Telecommunications Research Establishment in England during World War II.[1] He was director of the Cornell University’s School of Electrical Engineering, and the founder of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, San Diego.[4] The New York Times called Booker "worldwide authority on radio wave propagation",[5] as well as "one of the world's foremost authorities on the propagation of electric waves"[6]

Awards and Distinctions

Career and life

Henry George Booker was born in 1910 in Barking, Essex, England.[1] He graduated from Cambridge University with B.A. degree in applied and pure math in 1933.[4] He received Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1936 in ionospheric physics.[4] Booker researched radio wave propagation as a Fellow of Christ's College, and continued this research as a Visiting Scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. During World War II, Booker conducted further research into radio wave propagation for the Royal Air Force, which led to significant developments in the understanding of antennas.[4] After the war, Booker returned to Christ's College to teach until 1948. Post-1948, Booker taught exclusively in the United States. He received U.S. citizenship in 1952.[4] Booker died of complications of brain tumor in La Jolla, California on November 1, 1988.

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