Henry P. Hall
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.
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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
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