Eugene I. Gordon
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Eugene I. Gordon
is an American physicist
. He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs
is an American physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
. He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs
Bell Labs
Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
Honors and awards
- IEEE Edison Medal in 1984
- member, National Academy of EngineeringNational Academy of EngineeringThe National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
in 1978 - IEEE Vladimir K. Zworykin Award in 1975
- Fellow, IEEE 1968