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Bavarian Academy of Sciences honors King

King speaking at his birthday party.

Ronold W.P. King, professor emeritus in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received a congratulatory letter from Heinrich Noth, the president of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. After offering congratulations to King for reaching his 100th birthday, the letter continued:

"You have advanced the understanding of electromagnetic waves in a very brilliant manner. This includes especially the expansion of electromagnetic waves in space and their generation by antennas. We admire your continuing technical activity at your age. ... We are confident that by your books and your more than 100 Ph.D.'s, your technical methods will continue. ...

"The Bavarian Academy of Sciences is especially happy that in your student days and later as a Guggenheim Fellow you were active at the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich . . .

"Your lifelong relationship with Germany is . . . evident from your articles about Goethe as a scientist who, like yourself, was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences."