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(Created page with "thumb|150px|right|Henry P. Hall (undated) '''Henry P. Hall''' graduated from Williams College in 1949 and MIT in 1952 before joining General Radio as a co-op student in 1949. He then worked for close to forty years for the same company until his retirement from GenRad in 1993 as a staff scientist. He is credited with the design of the Digibridge instrument and invented the Orthonull mechanism (see 1650-A). ''please expand bio''...") |
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'''Henry | '''Henry Parsons Hall''' (June 28, 1928 - July 17, 2023) graduated from Williams College in 1949 and MIT in 1952 before joining General Radio as a co-op student in 1949. | ||
He then worked for close to forty years for the same company until his retirement from GenRad in 1993 as a staff scientist. | He then worked for close to forty years for the same company until his retirement from GenRad in 1993 as a staff scientist. | ||
He is credited with the design of the [[Digibridge]] instrument and invented the [[Orthonull]] mechanism (see [[1650-A]]). | He is credited with the design of the [[Digibridge]] instrument and invented the [[Orthonull]] mechanism (see [[1650-A]]). | ||
Hall was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and one of only three General Radio Fellows. | |||
''please expand bio'' | ''please expand bio'' | ||
Revision as of 04:54, 18 December 2023
Henry Parsons Hall (June 28, 1928 - July 17, 2023) graduated from Williams College in 1949 and MIT in 1952 before joining General Radio as a co-op student in 1949.
He then worked for close to forty years for the same company until his retirement from GenRad in 1993 as a staff scientist.
He is credited with the design of the Digibridge instrument and invented the Orthonull mechanism (see 1650-A).
Hall was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and one of only three General Radio Fellows.
please expand bio
Links
- IET Labs Application Note, Henry Hall: Father of the Digibridge
- US Patent 2872639, Henry P Hall, Electrical bridge and method. Filed Oct. 10, 1956; Granted Feb. 3, 1959 (describing the Orthonull feature)
- US Patent 4342089, Henry P Hall, Method of and apparatus for automatic measurement of circuit parameters with microprocessor calculation techniques. Filed Dec 12, 1979; Granted July 27, 1982
- please extend list of patents