Electronic
Systems and Signals
Research Laboratory
Joseph A. O'Sullivan
Research, Areas of Interest, and Other Links
Information Theory
Interesting Links
Claude Shannon dies on February 24, 2001 at the age of 84.
Samuel C. Sachs
- "Samuel Sachs was born in 1903 and came to Desloge, Mo., from
Lithuania in 1906. Growing up in a house with no modern conveniences
such as electricity and running water, Sachs went on to study
electrical engineering at Washington University and started Sachs
Electric Company. It is now the largest electrical contracting firm in
the St. Louis area."
(St. Louis Commerce Magazine, April 2001)
- Sachs Family of
companies: history
- Louis
Sachs
- "Born in Lithuania, Sam Sachs came to this country at age
3.
His father, also Louis Sachs, came to Desloge, Mo. where he started out
as a peddler and walked from one small
town to the next carrying various dry goods on his back. He graduated
to a horse and buggy, and eventually operated his own store. The
first Louis Sachs' house had
no electricity. When the enterprising young Sam Sachs was old enough,
he got a battery and installed lights in his family's home. After
he graduated from Washington University with a degree in electrical
engineering, Sam Sachs went to work on the night shift at Union
Electric. Somewhere along the way Sam Sachs met Dena Sacks, a
school teacher at Hamilton School in the west end of St. Louis, and
they married. One fortuitious night he fell asleep, and for that
he was fired. Soon after, he started his own business. That was in
1925, three years before his son, Louis Sachs, was born."
Inducted:
05/03/1991
Born in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1935, Charles M. Wolfe
received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from WVU in 1961 and 1962,
respectively. He received the PhD in 1965 from the University of
Illinois. In 1978 he received an Electronics Division Award from the
Electrochemical Society and was elected a Fellow in the IEEE “for
contributions to the development of high-purity gallium-arsenide for
microwave and optical device applications.”
In 1990, Dr. Wolfe and Dr. Gregory E. Stillman were joint
recipients of the prestigious Jack A. Morton Award. He is a member of
the National Academy of Engineers and internationally recognized as one
of the leading authorities in electron device research.
Dr. Wolfe was appointed to the Samuel C. Sachs Chair of Electrical
Engineering at Washington University in
1982.
Dr. Wolfe is also a distinguished
alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "in
recognition of his outstanding achievements
in the synthesis and characterization of ultra-pure III-V
semiconductors."
- B.S. Electrical
Engineering, West Virginia University, 1961
- M.S. Electrical
Engineering, West Virginia University, 1962
- Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1965
Donald L. Snyder
Donald
L. Snyder, Ph.D., Samuel C. Sachs Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Washington University
Working with Academy Fellows Jerome R. Cox, Sc.D., and the late Michael
Ter-Pogossian, Ph.D., Dr. Snyder participated in research to develop
positron-emission-tomography systems. He established and directed the
Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory, which researched
fundamental aspects of imaging applied to biomedical, astronomical, and
remote-sensing problems. He is renowned for his contributions to
estimation theory and its applications to communications and medicine.
His current research, along with faculty and students from the
Washington University Schools of Engineering and Medicine, is aimed at
improving the capabilities of x-ray imaging technology to improve the
treatment of patients having advanced cervical cancer.
Edited September 28, 2004
Washington University in
St.
Louis
School of
Engineering Deptartment
of Electrical
Engineering