Henry G. Booker
Henry George Booker (December 14, 1910 – November 1, 1988) was an Anglo-American physicist and electrical engineer.
Henry George Booker | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 14, 1910 Essex, England |
| Died | November 1, 1988 (aged 77) La Jolla, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist Engineer |
| Known for | worldwide authority on radio wave propagation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | engineering, radiophysics |
| Institutions | Cambridge University Cornell University University of California, San Diego |
| Doctoral advisor | J. A. Ratcliffe |
| Doctoral students | William E. Gordon |
Booker was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was head of panel on stratospheric pollution. He was a head of the Maths Group at Worth focused on radio propagation. He was director of the Cornell University’s school of electrical engineering, and the founder of department of electrical engineering and computer science at University of California, San Diego. The New York Times called Booker "worldwide authority on radio wave propagation", as well as "one of the world's foremost authorities on the propagation of electric waves"
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