Dr. Klemens
Heumann
1985 William E. Newell Power
Electronics Award Recipient
At the IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference at Unversite' Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France in 1985, Pierre Thollot presented the William E. Newell Award to Dr. Klemens Heumann as follows. [JF]
"... Tonight's individual deserves the honor of recognition for his outstanding achievements in the field of pwer electronics - in teaching, in design practice, in consulting work, in communication power electronics technology to our technical community, and in identifying and drawing together the various specialties that are necessarily a part of power electronics.""...Our selection for the 1985 William E. Newell PESC Award is Professor Dr. Klemens R. Heumann of the Technical University of Berlin. Professor Klemens R. Heumann was born in 1931 and raised in Germany. He received his diploma for Electrical Engineering in 1956. He then joined AEG and worked in Berlin on rectifiers, invertes and converters (when the first SCRs appeared from GE in 1958)." "He received his Doctor Degree from the Technical University of Berlin for a thesis on currernt measurement techniques in 1951, in the sixties and seventies, he conducted fundamental work on DC Choppers and PWM Invertes for AC Drives." "In 1969 he moved from industry to University teaching, where for 5 years he was Professor of power electronics at the University of Hannover. In 1983 he was appointed Professor Dr. at the Technical University of Berlin where he now teaches." "Professor Heumann has written many principle publications on power electronics and is the author and co-author of three books. Please welcome Professor Dr. Klemens Heumann."
Source: Power Electronics Society Historical Archive 0000 0003