Leopold B. Felsen; Target strength: Some recent theoretical developments, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 12, pp. 443 - 452, April 1987.
Leopold B. Felsen (S'47-A'53-M'54-SM'55- F'62) was born in Munich, Germany, on May 7, 1924. He received the B.E.E., M.E.E., and D.E.E. degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, in 1948, 1950, and 1952, respectively.During World War II he was involved with work on electronic ballistics-calibration devices in the U.S. Army. Since 1948 he has been with Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now Polytechnic University, and since 1978 he has held the position of Institute Professor. From 1974 to 1978, he was Dean of Engineering. On a leave of absence during 1960-1961 he served as a Liaison Scientist with the London Branch of the Office of Naval Research. His research work has dealt with a variety of areas in electromagnetic radiation and diffraction theory, and his present interest is centered primarily on general techniques for wave propagation in various disciplines. He is author or coauthor of more than 200 papers, and author or editor of several books. He has held visiting professorships at universities in the United States and abroad. In 1967 and 1971, he was in Russia as an invited guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and in 1981, he was invited to the People's Republic of China for a six-week stay.
Dr. Felsen is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of America. He is listed in numerous biographical volumes. He was an Associate Editor of Radio Science, and is now an Associate Editor of Wave Motion, and the Editor of the Wave Phenomena Series of Springer-Verlag. In 1974, he was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1973, the Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from URSI in 1975, an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Denmark in 1979, a Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award in 1981, and a Sackler Fellowship from Tel Aviv University in 1985. In 1977, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He has served as Vice-Chairman and Chairman of both the U.S. and the International URSI Commission B.