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Hendrik Wade Bode

American Controls and Communications pioneer (1905-1982) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 76

Hendrik Wade Bode was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications, he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research.

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A life in dates

1982Died21 June 19821979Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage AwardAward1975Rufus Oldenburger MedalAward1969Edison MedalAward1956Fellow of the American Physical SocietyAward1905Born24 December 1905

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Hendrik Wade Bode, (see enlargement on left), at the May 26, 1958 meeting of the Special Committee on Space Technology, (fourth from the left). Wernher von Braun is at the head of the table facing the camera

Hendrik Wade Bode, (see enlargement on left), at the May 26, 1958 meeting of the Special Committee on Space Technology, (fourth from the left). Wernher von Braun is at the head of the table facing the camera

Awards

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award1979

Rufus Oldenburger Medal1975

Edison Medal1969

Fellow of the American Physical Society1956

IEEE Fellow

Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

About this person

His synergy with Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, laid the foundations for the technological convergence of the Information Age.

Country

United States

Category

Academics

Type

Academic

Status

Deceased

Dates

Lived 1905 to 1982 · aged 76

The same award as Hendrik

Charles Stark DraperBoth received Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award David LuenbergerBoth received Rufus Oldenburger Medal

Dimitri BertsekasBoth received Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

Rudolf E. KálmánBoth received Rufus Oldenburger Medal Karl Johan ÅströmBoth received Rufus Oldenburger Medal Rutherford ArisBoth received Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award