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Sidney Darlington (1906-97) He received the B.S. degree in physics from Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, in 1928, the B.S. degree in electrical communication engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1929, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 1940.
In 1929 he joined the Technical Staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories. He retired from Bell laboratories in 1971 but stayed on as a part-time Consultant for the next three years. At the time of his retirement, he was a Department Head in the Mathematics Research Center. He then was an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, where he occasionally taught a graduate course on filters. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, during the 1960's, for periods of 1 to 6 weeks, and was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, during November, 1978. His interests included circuit theory, communication systems, analog computers, data smoothing, radars, rocket guidance, and design of the flight paths for spacecraft. And he published numerous papers and was awarded 35 patents.
Dr. Darlington was a past Chairman of the IRE Circuit Theory Group. He received the IEEE Edison Medal in 1975 and the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1981. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978.