CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 1399 



Laboratories, 1941-. Since June 1954, ]\Ir. Miller has been Assistant 

 Director of Radio Research at Holmdcl and has been in charge of re- 

 search on guided systems and associated millimeter and microwave 

 techniques. During World War II, he workcnl on airborne radar systems. 

 He also worked on coaxial carrier transmissions systems. Mr. Miller 

 holds patents in connection with automatic frequency control, an os- 

 cillator control scheme and the D-C amplifier. Member of the I.R.E., 

 Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. 



Norman A. Newell, E. E., Lehigh University, 1920. Mr. Newell 

 joined Bell Telephone Lalwratories in 1934 after fourteen years with the 

 American Telephone and Telegraph Company. He has formed reciuire- 

 ments for the development of circuit and equipment arrangements for 

 intertoll trunk signaling systems, local and toll manual switchboards, 

 toll switchboard trunking systems and automatic toll systems. He helped 

 coordinate these projects and prepared descriptions of the systems for 

 the operating companies. Mr. Newell holds patents in the fields of 

 straightforward trunking, toll-call timing and single-frequency signaling. 

 He is a member of the A.I.E.E., Tau Beta Pi and Pi Delta Epsilon. 



William Pferd, B.S. in M.E. Rutgers University, 1947; M.S. in M.E., 

 Newark College of Engineering 1951. Mr. Pferd has recently been con- 

 cerned with coin collector development. Previously, he worked on design 

 and de\^elopment of the station ringer for the 500-type telephone set and 

 the dial mechanism for the same set. During World War II he served 

 as a photographic intelligence officer in Italy with the 98th Bomb Group. 



John R. Pierce, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., California Institute of Tech- 

 nology, 1933, 1934 and 1936; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1936-; Ap- 

 pointed Director of Electronics Research, 1952. Dr. Pierce has specialized 

 in the development of electron tubes and microwave research since join- 

 ing the Laboratories. During the war he concentrated on the develop- 

 ment of electronic devices for the armed forces. Since the war he has 

 done research leading to the development of the beam traveling- wave 

 tube for which he was awarded the 1947 Morris Liebmann Memorial 

 Prize of the Institute of Radio Engineers. Dr. Pierce is the author of two 

 books: Theory and Design of Electron Beams, published in second edition 

 this year, and Traveling Wave Tubes (1950). He was voted the "Out- 

 standing Young Electrical Engineer of 1942" by Eta Kappa Nu. Mem- 

 ber of the A.I.E.E., Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Fellow of the 

 American Physical Society and the I.R.E. 



