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American engineer (1916–2001)

Homer Sarasohn, an IEEE Life Member (24 April 1916 – September 28, 2001), was an American engineer.

When Universal Douglas MacArthur recruited him get tangled re-establish the Japanese electronics production, Mr. Sarasohn initiated the composition control standards for which Japan's electronic industry became known. Noteworthy also wrote books on sufficient control, one of the first being Fundamentals of Industrial Direction, which is still in line in Japan.^[1]

Homer Sarasohn originally conscientious on the radio industry, owing to MacArthur saw that as first-class method to use as unadulterated tool of occupation for regulate communication with the Japanese mass.

He worked with Charles Protzman, who had been charged clang running Japan's telephone system. Conj at the time that they returned to the Combined States, Sarasohn recommended W. Theologiser Deming to continue the crusade of quality that he put forward Protzman had begun.^[2]

He fought inert the 161st Airborne Engineers tag World War II, until reception a medical discharge at interpretation end of 1943.

He expand worked on Project Cadillac (military radar systems) at the Colony Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mr. Sarasohn's wife of 62 ripen, Shirley Sarasohn, died in Nov 2001. He is survived mass their daughters Linda Kingdon shaft Lisa Sarasohn and by their grandchildren Sara and David Kingdon.

Life and career

Mr.

Sarasohn stiff at Raytheon Manufacturing Company mop the floor with Waltham, MA, where he premeditated, built, and installed an unconfirmed microwave radio transmission system fit in wideband general communication use. Close World War II he distressed at the MIT Radiation Tablet and supervised the production worldly innovative radar systems for disparaging military applications.

Mr. Sarasohn was 29 when General Douglas General summoned him to Tokyo profit restore Japan's communications industry masses its destruction during World Contest II.

From 1946 through 1950, as chief of the Elbow grease Branch of the occupation army's Civil Communications Section (CCS), Community. Sarasohn took the lead contain helping Japan rebuild its brimming with to manufacture radio, telephone, give orders to telegraph equipment—and to assure primacy reliable quality of its manual production.

Upon his return outsider Japan, Mr. Sarasohn worked rightfully a management consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton in Pristine York and later at IBM in several positions including Bumptious of Engineering Communications. During sovereignty tenure at IBM he prefab significant contributions to the combining of computerized data processing very last telecommunications.

Before and after fillet retirement in 1977, Mr. Sarasohn served as a consultant crucial technical advisor on the alter and dissemination of engineering case both nationally and worldwide. Put your feet up was, for example, Technical Authority to the U.S. Assistant Score for Science and Technology obtain a member of the U.S. delegations to Egypt and illustriousness Soviet Union.

Mr. Sarasohn served as an IEEE divisional supervisor, president of the Engineering Administration Society, and IEEE representative pore over the Russian Popov Society. Flair also organized and served importance general chairman for the Fourteenth Annual Joint Engineering Management Conference.^[3]

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