Profile: Russell H. Poulson

Your personal background.
Hello, I am 77 years old,and retired from Ford Motor Co. Research and Scientific Labs in Dearborn Michigan. I was a Test instrumentation Engineer there since 1960.
Worked on all kinds of automotive research projects, from Transistor ignition up to the Hybrid cars and turbine trucks.

Started at the Henry Ford Trade School in 1944 Learned toolmaking, Then to apprentice school as an industrial electrician.
some college at wayne University in Detroit
Many electronics courses at Henry ford Community college in Dearborn
USMC Radar repairman, US navy radio repair school, Great Lakes,Illinois.
A year at the USMC radio station at Cherry point Marine air base.

Hold an Extra class amateur radio license W8PCR

Got some practical experience 1n 1959-60 with the quantum theory by putting together the first Ruby Maser microwave amplifiers for the Univ. of Michigan at Willow Run Labs in Ypsilant iMi. Used the amplifiers for Radar, radio astronomy,and satellite communications.

I have other reading interests in Seismology, and Geomagnetism, mainly from an instrumentation point of view
Your opinions about Einstein@Home
I became interested after I discovered the LIGO website. I thought it would be just the right thing for me to keep my hands in Scientific experemtation.
Your feedback on this profile
Recommend this profile for User of the Day:I like this profile
Alert administrators to an offensive profile:I don't like this profile
Account dataView
TeamEinstein@Penn State


Return to Einstein@Home main page

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant NSF-0200852 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the MPG.

Copyright © 2009 Bruce Allen for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration