Response of the medalist

IN ACCEPTING this fine gold medal commemorating a distinguished electrical engineer, Benjamin G. Lamme, I am gratefully aware both of the fortunate circumstances which time and again led me down an interesting trail of professional effort and of my enormous indebtedness to others — my associates, teachers, and students at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Columbia, and especially MIT, where I have been privileged to work for nearly 30 years. I am indebted, as well, to a vast historical background of science and engineering, sparkling with such names as Thales of Miletus, Von Guericke, Faraday, and Roentgen.