Dr. Thomas G.
Wilson
1999 Distinguished Service Award
Recipient
Dr. Thomas G. Wilson (M'50-SM'92-LF'94) is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC and Vice President and cofounder of Wilmore Electronics Company, Hillsborough, NC. He received the A.B. ('47), S.M ('49), and Sc.D. ('53) from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and the honorary degree Docteur Honoris Causa from Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France in 1986.
He served in the U. S. Army from 1943 to 1947. From 1949 to 1953 he was em-ployed at the U. S. Naval Research Labora-tory in Washington, DC doing research on magnetic amplifiers. From 1953 to 1959 he was with Magnetics Inc., Butler, PA, as Associate Director of Product Development.
He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of Duke University, Durham, NC in 1959 and served as Chairman of the Department from 1964 to 1968. In 1961 he initiated one of the first university programs in power electronics which continued until his retirement in 1994. Professor Wilson is the author of more than 100 technical papers in power electronics, magnetics, and nonlinear systems, and the holder of five U. S. pat-ents. He was a member of the Organizing Committee and Vice Chair of the first PESC in 1970. In 1979 he was awarded the IEEE M. Barry Carlton Award and in 1981 the William E. Newell Award. He has been actively involved with and served as a member of the Administrative Committees of the Magnetics Society and the Power Electronics Society. He served a two-year term as President of the Power Electronics Society.
Source: Flyer from Award Presentation