Leopold B. Felsen Explained

Leopold B. Felsen^[1] (May 7, 1924 in Munich^[2] – September 24, 2005 in Boston^[3]) was an electrical engineer and physicist known for studies of electromagnetism and wave-based disciplines. He had to flee Germany at 16 due to the Nazis.^[4] He has fundamental contributions to applied electromagnetic field analysis.

Academic life

He received his bachelor, master, and PhD degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, in 1948, 1950, and 1952, respectively, all in electrical engineering. After his educations he became professor at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn^[5] and at Boston University College of Engineering, an IEEE life fellow and a fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the Optical Society of America.

In 1973 he coauthored with Nathan Marcuvitz a textbook titled Radiation and Scattering of Waves which published by Prentice Hall in its Electrical Engineering Series. This was a classic worldwide textbook which immediately became widely used by researchers^[6] and has been described as "The Bible" in applied electromagnetism.^[7] In 1994 IEEE reissued Radiation and Scattering of Waves as one of its classic reissues in the collection of The IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory.^[8]

Awards

In 1991 he won the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal.^{[9] [10]}

Publications

Authored

• Felsen LB, Marcuvitz N, Radiation and Scattering of Waves, Wiley-IEEE, 2003.
• Felsen LB, Mongiardo M, Russer P, Electromagnetic Field Computation by Network Methods, Springer, 2009.^[11]

Edited

• Bertoni HL, Carin L, Felsen LB, (Eds), Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics, vol 1, Springer, 1993.
• Bertoni HL, Felsen LB, (Eds), Directions in Electromagnetic Wave Modeling, Springer, 1991.
• Carin L, Felsen LB, (Eds), Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics, vol 2, Springer, 1995.
• Felsen LB, (Ed), Hybrid Formulation of Wave Propagation and Scattering, Martinus Nijhoff, 1984.
• Felsen LB, (Ed), Transient Electromagnetic Fields, Springer, 1976.
• Pinto IM, Galdi V, Felsen LB, (Eds), Electromagnetics in a Complex World: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2004.

Tributed

• Russer P, Mongiardo M, (Eds), Fields, Networks, Computational Methods, and Systems in Modern Electrodynamics: A Tribute to Leopold B. Felsen, Springer, 2004.
• Sevgi L, Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation, Wiley-IEEE, 2014.

See also

• List of textbooks in electromagnetism

Notes and References

1. http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/MemberDirectory/29397.aspx Dr. Leopold B. Felsen elected in 1977
2. Felsen . L. B. . Radiation and Scattering of Transient Electromagnetic Fields . International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields . 5 . 3 . 1992 . 0894-3370 . 10.1002/jnm.1660050305 . 149-161 .
3. Web site: Leary . W. E. . Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies . . 2005 . 23 December 2023.
4. News: Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies . The New York Times . 10 October 2005 . Leary . Warren E. .
5. Web site: Felsen family endows scholarship at Poly . May 4, 2006 . NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. https://web.archive.org/web/20140529052831/http://engineering.nyu.edu/news/2006/05/04/felsen-family-endows-scholarship-poly . 2014-05-29 .
6. Book: Felsen . L. B. . Leopold B. Felsen . Marcuvitz . N. . Radiation and Scattering of Waves . . 2003 . 978-0-780-31088-9 . vii-viii .
7. Web site: Leary . W. E. . Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies . . October 2005 . January 31, 2024.
8. Dudley . D. G. . The IEEE Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory . IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine . 48 . 6 . 2006 . 1558-4143 . 10.1109/MAP.2006.323368 . 126-127 . 40484203 .
9. https://web.archive.org/web/20120927170830/http://www.ieee.org/documents/hertz_rl.pdf Recipients of the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal
10. https://web.archive.org/web/20070515194510/http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/hertzpr.html IEEE site
11. Published posthumously.