Nikolai Eberhardt was a
German émigré physicist and author of ''From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament'' (1998).
Biography
Born 1930 in
Estonia, Eberhardt has German, Swedish and Russian ancestry. He studied philosophy in
Graz
Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...
,
Austria and physics in
Munich, gaining a physics diploma in 1957, and a
Doctor of Science degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1962 from the
Institute of Technology in Munich. He served as Professor of Electrical Engineering at
Lehigh University (Emeritus from 1995). Intermittently he also served as adjunct professor in the Science, Technology and Society program. Besides numerous publications, he has multiple
patents to his credit in the areas of color-television tubes, microwave devices, robotics and instrumentation. He was Digest Editor of the 1976 IEEE International Microwave Symposium.
References
External links
Lehigh University Faculty Profile2009 IPPY AwardsPartial Patent ListAES E-Library: A Quasi-Linear Frequency Divider
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20th-century German physicists
German science writers
20th-century German philosophers
German male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Lehigh University faculty