Howard Brandt

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birth_date = January 2, 1939
birth_place = Emerado, North Dakota, USA
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fields = Physicist
workplaces = University of Maryland
Army Research Laboratory
alma_mater = MIT
University of Washington
doctoral_advisor = Marshall Baker
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known_for = Turbutron
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Howard Edward Brandt was born in Emerado, North Dakota, and is presently with the United States Army Research Laboratory in Maryland, and his notable for his work in general relativity and quantum information. He is the inventor of the turbutron. [Howard E. Brandt, "The turbutron," "IEEE Trans. Plasma Science," Vol. 13, No. 6, 1985, pp. 513-519.]

Education

In 1958, he graduated from Queen Anne High School, Seattle, Washington. He received his BS in physics from MIT as a National Sloan Scholar, 1962. He received his MS in physics from the University of Washington, 1963. He obtained his PhD at the University of Washington with a thesis entitled "Sixth Order Charge Renormalization Constant," under Marshall Baker, 1970, calculating the divergent part of the charge renormalization constant in quantum electrodynamics to sixth order in perturbation theory in Feynman gauge to verify the gauge invariance of the calculation.

Career

In 1970-76, he was a postdoc in the area of general relativity at the University of Maryland. In 1976, he joined the United States Army Research Laboratory in 1976 (then called the Harry Diamond Laboratory). From 1986 to 1995, he technically directed three major programs for the Office of Innovative Science and Technology of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, involving nation-wide research on high-power microwave source development, sensors for interactive discrimination, and electromagnetic missiles and directed energy concepts.

Honors

Brandt has received a number of honors including the Siple Medal, Hinman Award, and Ulrich Award. He is an elected Fellow of the US Army Research Laboratory. He received a major achievement award from the US Army Research Laboratory for his publications and research on quantum information processing. He also received the ARL 2004 Science Award.

Achievements

He is inventor of the turbutron, a high power millimeter-wave source (US Patent 4,553,068), [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4553068.html] and co-inventor of a quantum key receiver based on a positive operator valued measure (US Patent 5,999,285). His broad research interests include quantum field theory, quantum computation, quantum cryptography, quantum optics, general relativity, and non-neutral plasma physics.

See also

* "Quantum Aspects of Life" (book)

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External links

* [http://www.icpress.co.uk/physics/p581.html "Quantum Aspects of Life"]
* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=114516 Brandt's math genealogy]
* [http://en.scientificcommons.org/howard_e_brandt Brandt at ScientificCommmons]
* [http://www.springer.com/physics/journal/11128?detailsPage=editorialBoard Brandt on editorial board]