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Walter Ransom Gail Baker

American electrical engineer (1892-1960)

IEEE 荣誉奖章 1952

Walter Ransom Gail Baker was an American electrical engineer. He was a vice president of General Electric, and was Director of Engineering for the Radio Manufacturers Association. At the urging of James Lawrence Fly, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Baker founded the National Television System Committee, or NTSC, in 1940. He served as president of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) in 1947.

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出生
1892 年 11 月 30 日，洛克波特市
逝世
1960 年 10 月 30 日，锡拉丘兹
国籍
美国
职业
工程师

所获奖项（2）

  1. 1952IEEE 荣誉奖章
  2. 1958IEEE创始人奖章

百科正文

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Biography

He was born in Lockport, New York, in 1892. He graduated from Union College with a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1916. He took a job with General Electric in 1916 and worked on radio for military applications during World War I.

He received a M.S. in electrical engineering from Union College, in 1919.

He died on October 30, 1960.

Awards and honors

  • Walter Baker received following awards and honors:
  • The SMPTE David Sarnoff Medal in 1959
  • The IRE Founders Award in 1958
  • The Army Medal of Freedom in 1953
  • The IRE Medal of Honor in 1952
  • Eminent Member of Eta Kappa Nu in 1954
  • IRE Fellow in 1928

The initially called W.R.G. Baker Award provided by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), was created in 1956 from a donation from Dr. Walter R. G. Baker to the IRE. The award continued to be awarded as IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award by the board of directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), after the IRE organization merged into the IEEE.

The call sign of (then)-General Electric owned television station in Schenectady, WRGB (then an NBC station, it joined CBS in 1981), was chosen in his honor.

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