Henry George Booker | |
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| Born | December 14, 1910 Essex, England |
| Died | November 1, 1988 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist Engineer |
| Known for | worldwide authority on radio wave propagation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | engineering, radiophysics |
| Institutions | Cambridge University Cornell University University of California, San Diego |
| Doctoral advisor | J. A. Ratcliffe |
| Doctoral students | William E. Gordon |
Henry George Booker (December 14, 1910 – November 1, 1988) was an Anglo-American physicist and electrical engineer.
Booker was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[1] He was head of panel on stratospheric pollution.[2] He was a head of the Maths Group at Worth focused on radio propagation.[3] He was director of the Cornell University’s school of electrical engineering, and the founder of department of electrical engineering and computer science at University of California, San Diego.[4] The New York Times called Booker "worldwide authority on radio wave propagation",[5] as well as "one of the world's foremost authorities on the propagation of electric waves"[6]