Title: Professor
Company: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, IL United States
Achievements:
- Cited as one of two principal pioneers of numerical methods for solving Maxwell’s equations, Nature Milestones (2010)
- Listed as the senior author of the seventh most-cited book in physics, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester (2012)
- Recipient, IEEE Electromagnetics Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2014)
- Cited as the “father of the finite-difference time-domain technique” for Maxwell’s equations, Nature Photonics (2015)
- Elected Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA) (2018). Citation: “For creating the finite-difference time-domain method for the numerical solution of Maxwell’s equations, with crucial application to the growth and current state of the field of photonics.”
- Inductee, CQ Magazine Amateur Radio Hall of Fame (2011)
- Featured Listee, Who’s Who in Finance and Business, Marquis Who’s Who (2006-2010)
- Featured Listee, Who’s Who in America, Marquis Who’s Who (1992-2016)
- Featured Listee, Who’s Who in American Education, Marquis Who’s Who (1994-1997, 2004-2008)
- Featured Listee, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Who’s Who (1994-2009, 2011-2012, 2016-2017)
- Featured Listee, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Marquis Who’s Who (2000-2016)
- Featured Listee, Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who (2006-2016)
- Inductee, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement (2018)
Designations:
- PhD Cabell Fellow, Northwestern University (1975)
- MS, Northwestern University (1972)
- BS with Highest Distinction, Northwestern University (1971)
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