Nikolai Eberhardt was a German émigré physicist and author of From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament (1998).[1]
Biography
editBorn 1930 in Estonia, Eberhardt has German, Swedish and Russian ancestry. He studied philosophy in Graz, Austria and physics in Munich, gaining a physics diploma in 1957, and a Doctor of Science degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1962 from the Institute of Technology in Munich. He served as Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University (Emeritus from 1995).[2] Intermittently he also served as adjunct professor in the Science, Technology and Society program. Besides numerous publications, he has multiple patents to his credit in the areas of color-television tubes, microwave devices, robotics and instrumentation.[3][4] He was Digest Editor of the 1976 IEEE International Microwave Symposium.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Dr. Nikolai Eberhardt 1930 - 2014". Legacy.com. July 28, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
- ^ Lehigh University Faculty Profile http://www.eecs.lehigh.edu/people/bio/eberhardt.html
- ^ "Prof invents robot that 'sees'". September 16, 1986. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
- ^ Partial Patent List http://v3.espacenet.com/searchResults?locale=en_EP&query=%28txt+%3D+Eberhardt%2C%29+and+%28ia+%3D+Nikolai%29&compact=false&DB=EPODOC&submitted=true
- ^ Digest Editor of the 1976 IEEE International Microwave Symposium https://openlibrary.org/b/OL14179130M/1976_IEEE_MTT-S_International_Microwave_Symposium_digest_of_technical_papers