Biography of Henning F. Harmuth

Henning F. Harmuth was born in Vienna, Austria, on July 27, 1928. He received the Diplom-Ingenieur degree in 1951 and the Doctor of Technical Sciences degree in 1953, both from Technische Universität Wien (Vienna Technical University).

He is author of more than 150 journal publications and of fifteen books. Transmission of Information by Orthogonal Functions (Springer-Verlag, 1969, second printing 1970, second edition 1972), Sequency Theory - Foundations and Applications (Academic Press, 1977), Acoustic Imaging with Electronic Circuits (Academic Press, 1979), Nonsinusoidal Waves for Radar and Radio Communication (Academic Press, 1981), Antennas and Waveguides for Nonsinusoidal Waves (Academic Press, 1984), Propagation of Nonsinusoidal Electromagnetic Waves (Academic Press, 1986), Information Theory Applied to Space-Time Physics (Russian edition MIR Publishers, Moscow 1989; English edition World Scientific, 1993), Radiation of Nonsinusoidal Electromagnetic Waves (Academic Press, 1990), Propagation of Electromagnetic Signals (World Scientific, 1994; with coauthor M.G.M.Hussain), Electromagnetic Signals (Reflection, Transmission, Focusing, Distortion) (Kluwer Acadcemic Plenum Publishers, 1999; with coauthors R.N.Boules and M.G.M.Hussain), Interstellar Propagation of Electromagnetic Signals (Kluwer Academic\,/\,Plenum Publishers, 2000; with coauthor K.Lukin); Modified Maxwell Equations in Quntum Electrodynamics (World Scientific, 2001; with coauthors T.W.Barrett and B.Meffert); Calculus of Finite Differences in Quantum Electrodynamics (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2003; with coauthor B.Meffert); Dogma of the Continuum and the Calculus of Finite Differences in Quantum Physics (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005; with coaauthor B.Meffert). Several of these books have been translated into Russian and Chinese.

He has lectured at Universität Karlsruhe (Germany); University of Maryland, College Park, MD (USA); Stanford University, Stanford, CA (USA); University of Warangal (India, UNESCO specialist program); The Australian National University (Canberra); Northwest Telecommunication Engineering Institute Xi'an (China); University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa); University of Sydney (Australia); Kuwait University (State of Kuwait); Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China); Technische Universitäat Dresden (Germany, Fulbright exchange program); University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand); The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC and - as an exchange scientist of the US National Academy of Sciences - at various institutes of the former Soviet and East German Academies of Sciences. He retired from the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Catholic University of America, in 1996.