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National Medal of Science

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National Medal of Science

Curator: Larry H. Bernstein, MD, FCAP

In 2014, Pune-educated Stanford Professor Thomas Kailath, and Burton Richter win US National Medal of Science

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Thomas Kailath, a Pune educated Indian-American engineering professor at Stanford University, is one of the recipients of the US National Medal of Science announced by President Barack Obama.

Kailath is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s high civilian awards and is a member of major science and engineering academies in India.

He received his BE (telecom) degree from the College of Engineering, Pune before getting his SM and ScD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He then worked at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California, before joining Stanford University as associate professor of Electrical Engineering in 1963.

He received his BE (telecom) degree from the College of Engineering, Pune before getting his SM and ScD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He then worked at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California, before joining Stanford University as associate professor of Electrical Engineering in 1963.

He then worked at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California, before joining Stanford University as associate professor of Electrical Engineering in 1963.

Kailath’s research and teaching at Stanford have ranged over several fields of engineering and mathematics, with a different focus roughly every decade, according to his profile on the university website.

These included information theory, communications, linear systems, estimation and control, signal processing, semiconductor manufacturing, probability and statistics, and matrix and operator theory.

Kailath was promoted to professor in 1968, and was appointed the first holder of the Hitachi America Professorship in 1988. He assumed emeritus status in 2001, but remains active with his research and writing activities.

Kailath is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2007 for contributions to the development of powerful algorithms for communications, control, computing and signal processing.

Among his other major honors are the Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society; the IEEE Education Medal and the IEEE Signal Processing Medal; Guggenheim, Churchill and Humboldt Fellowships.

He has mentored an outstanding array of more than 100 doctoral and postdoctoral scholars. Their joint efforts have led to over 300 journal papers, several of which have received outstanding paper prizes. They have also led to a dozen patents and to several books and monographs, including the major textbooks Linear Systems and Linear Estimation.

“This is indeed a great honor for me, which I proudly share with my students and coauthors,” Kailath said. “I am also grateful for the remarkably supportive environment of the Electrical Engineering department and the University.”
Burton Richter’s career at Stanford started in 1956 as a research associate in the High Energy Physics Laboratory. He became an assistant professor in the Physics Department in 1960, and is now the Paul Pigott Professor of Physical Sciences, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He joined SLAC as an associate professor and rose to technical director before becoming the leader of the laboratory from 1984 to 1999.

Richter shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of a new heavy elementary particle, the J/psi particle, whose existence implied the existence of the charmed quark. In recent years Richter turned his attention to energy issues, and in 2010 was the author of Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century.

He is a member of the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee and chaired its Fuel Cycle subcommittee from 2000 to 2013, and was a member of the first President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Review Panel for the National Climate Change Assessment. He is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

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