Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.

Michael N. Geselowitz, Ph.D., is staff director at the IEEE History Center. Visit the IEEE History Center’s Web page. For more articles by History Center staff, visit their publications page or visit the IEEE History Center’s Web page. The IEEE History Center is partially funded by donations to the History Fund of the IEEE Foundation.

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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.28 March 2022
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“Carbon Queen” Mildred Dresselhaus

Now is a good time to remind readers of the "Carbon Queen," Mildred Dresselhaus, the first woman to win the…
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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.22 March 2021
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The History of IEEE Since 1984

The “History of IEEE Since 1984” is now a single narrative page with a set of appendices pulling all the…
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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.3 April 2020
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Your Engineering Heritage: Technology in a Time of Plague

Disney's “Togo” is instructive in what it has to tell us about the use of technology in public health, an issue…
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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.27 August 2018
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There’ll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

As this sweltering North American summer of 2018 drags on, a lot of attention has been paid around the world…
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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.19 April 2017
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IEEE REACH Beta Website is Live!

REACH (Raising Engineering Awareness through the Conduit of History) provides free, online educational resources to high-school history teachers to enable…
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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.21 October 2016
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Engineering Hall of Fame: Reginald Fessenden

October marks the sesquicentennial of an important, but often overlooked, figure in engineering history: Reginald Fessenden
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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.6 April 2016
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Engineering Hall of Fame: Claude Shannon & Paul Baran – Pioneers of the Internet Age

On 30 April, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Claude E. Shannon, founder of information theory.…
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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.19 August 2015
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Your Engineering Heritage: The Electric Chair

This month marks a macabre anniversary that brings together the debate over cruel and unusual punishment with the topic of…
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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.5 February 2015
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Your Engineering Heritage: Fax for the Memories

If you Google fax machine sales history or some similar combination of terms, an interesting phenomenon occurs. You will find…
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Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.1 June 2014
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Engineering Hall of Fame: John W. Lieb

IEEE and the Stevens Institute of Technology have a "history" together that goes back almost to the beginning of each…