Edwin King Stodola

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Edwin King Stodola (October 31, 1914 – April 6, 1992) was an American radio engineer.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York,[1] and graduated from Cooper Union with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1936, then an E.E. degree in 1947.[2][3] In 1936, he worked with Radio Engineering Laboratories, then he joined the U.S. Signal Corps in 1939 as a civilian radio engineer. In 1941, during World War II, he was stationed at the Evans Signal Laboratory near Belmar, New Jersey.[2]

Following the war, Stodola was a member of Project Diana, a Signal Corps project to investigate long range radar. Led by John H. DeWitt, Jr., this group consisted of a five-man team with Stodola as the chief scientist.[4] During a test on January 10, 1946, this team became the first to bounce a radio signal off the moon and detect the resulting echo (Earth-Moon-Earth or EME).[5][6]

He left the Signal Corps in 1947 and became an engineer with Reeves Instrument Corporation.[2] Stodola received the Presidential Citation from Cooper Union in 1987 in recognition of his contributions to radar and radar tracking systems,[7] and the Radio Club of America's prestigious Armstrong Medal in 1991.[8] A licensed radio amateur (W2AXO) since childhood, he was inducted posthumously into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame in 2011.[9]

He was married to Elsa D. Stodola and the couple had a son, Robert King, and three daughters, Cynthia, Leslie, and Sherry. Following Elsa’s death, he married Rose B. Stodola. In 1983 he moved to Central Florida.[1]

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