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Lloyd V. Berkner
- Birthdate
- 1905/02/01
- Birthplace
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Death date
- 1967/06/04
- Associated organizations
- National Bureau of Standards, Carnegie Institution, Texas Instruments
- Fields of study
- Radio, Geophysics
President of IRE
Lloyd V. Berkner, IRE President, 1961, was the head of the Section on Exploratory Geophysics of the Atmosphere at Carnegie Institution. Under his presidency of the Associated Universities, Inc., the organization built the National Radio Astronomy Laboratory in West Virginia.
Biography
Lloyd V. Berkner was born February 1, 1905, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota and as a boy developed an interest in amateur radio.
Berkner was a man of great energy and many interests. He went to University of Minnesota and studied electrical engineering, receiving his BSEE in 1927. However, while in college he also joined the Naval Aviation Reserve, learned to fly, and developed a radio-communication device for small aircraft. Additionally, he was engineer-in-charge at radio station WLB-WGMS in Minnesota, which wa
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02.10.2020
Lloyd Berkner (right) addresses the crowd, including Gov. John Connally, during the dedication of the Founders Building on Oct. 29, 1964. During Berkner’s tenure, the divisions of atmospheric and space sciences, geosciences, and mathematics and mathematical physics — the roots of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics — were established.
Lloyd V. Berkner (1905-1967) didn’t live to see the institution he once led become UT Dallas or the campus building that now bears his name come to fruition.
But as an engineer, explorer, scientist and eventually the first president of the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest (GRCSW), he left an indelible mark on the University and beyond.
In honor of Berkner’s birthday this month, here are some facts you may not know about him:
- Berkner, who was born in Milwaukee and raised in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, was an expert radio operator as a teen. By age 17, he set a transcontinental radio transmission record for relaying messages from Hartford, Connecticut, to Hawaii and back.
- In 1927 he g
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Lloyd Berkner
American physicist and engineer
Lloyd Viel Berkner (February 1, 1905 – June 4, 1967[1]) was an American physicist and engineer. He was one of the inventors of the measuring device that since has become standard at ionospheric stations[2] because it measures the height and electron density of the ionosphere. The data obtained in the worldwide net of such instruments [3] were important for the developing theory of short wave radio propagation to which Berkner himself gave important contributions.
Berkner was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1948.[4]
Later he investigated the development of the Earth's atmosphere. Since he needed data from the whole world, he proposed the International Geophysical Year in 1950.[1] At that time, the IGY was the largest cooperative study of the Earth ever undertaken.
Berkner was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1956.[5][6] The IGY was carried out by
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