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E. F. W. Alex and erson (A´04, F´20) consulting engineer, General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., has been elected to membership in the Royal Academy of Science, Sweden. Doctor Alexanderson was born at Upsala, Sweden, and graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm in 1900. He later studied in Berlin, and in 1926 received the honorary degree of doctor of science from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. In 1902 he entered the General Electric Company, but also was chief engineer of the Radio Corporation of America 1920–4. Doctor Alexanderson is well known for his contributions to radio, which include the Alexanderson high frequency alternator, multiple tuned antenna, vacuum tube radio telephone transmitter, and tuned radio frequency receiver. He has been concerned also with television, electric ship propulsion, and railroad electrification, and has presented a number of technical papers. Among the honors which he has received are decoration with the Order of the North Star, Sweden, and the Order of Polonia Restituta, Poland, the gold medal of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and the John Ericsson medal. Doctor Alexanderson is a fellow and past-president of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and a member of the American Physical Society, and Sigma Xi.