Author_Institution :
School of Engineering, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Chairman of the Lamme Medal Committee
Abstract :
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (F ´45), Vice-President and Technical Consultant, Radio Corporation of America, RCA Laboratories Division, Princeton, N. J., has been honored as Lamme Medalist for 1948 for “his outstanding contribution to the concept and design of electronic apparatus basic to modern television.” The Lamme Medal, which has been awarded annually since 1928 by bequest of Benjamin Garver Lamme, was presented to Mr. Zworykin on June 22, 1949, at a general session of the AIEE Summer General Meeting held in Swampscott, Mass., June 20–24.
