Marcel J. E. Golay

Marcel Jules Edouard Golay (French: [gɔlɛ]; May 3, 1902 – April 27, 1989) was a Swiss-born mathematician, physicist, and information theorist, who applied mathematics to real-world military and industrial problems. He was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.[2]

For the astronomer from Geneva, see Marcel Golay (astronomer).
Schematic of a Golay cell[1]

Career

Golay studied electrical engineering at the Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich. He joined Bell laboratories in New York City in 1924, spending four years there. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1931.[3]

Golay then joined the US Army Signal Corps, eventually rising to the post of Chief Scientist. He was based mostly in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. He developed an IR "radar" based on its Golay Detector, the SCR-268T specifically designed to the detection of vessels (S/S Normandie was detected at its inaugural crossing). The SCR-268 (using Barkausen vacuum tubes) and the SCR-268T were to work together. However the 268T, only used in the Pacific theater was abandoned before the end of the war.[3]

Between 1955 and 1963, Golay was a consultant for Philco Corporation of Philadelphia, PA, and the Perkin-Elmer Corporation of Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1963, Golay joined the Perkin-Elmer company full-time as Senior Research Scientist.[3] Golay worked on many problems, including gas chromatography and optical spectroscopy. It was during this period when he patented an Analysis of Images, for two-dimensional parallel data processing, and worked to develop the idea, called Golay Logic for Optical Pattern Recognition along with Kendall Preston, Philip Norgren, David Dacava and Joseph Carvalko, Jr..[4] He remained with Perkin-Elmer for the rest of his life.

Achievements

Significant bibliography
  • Golay, M. (1949). "Notes on Digital Coding" (PDF). Proc. IRE. 37: 657. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-07.
  • Golay, M. (January 1977). "Sieves for low autocorrelation binary sequences". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 23 (1): 43–51. doi:10.1109/TIT.1977.1055653.
  • Golay, M. J. E. (January 1988). "Preparative capillary chromatography-a proposal". Journal of High Resolution Chromatography. 11 (1): 6–8. doi:10.1002/jhrc.1240110103.
  • Golay, M. (April 1961). "Complementary series". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 7 (2): 82–87. doi:10.1109/TIT.1961.1057620.

References
  1. Klocke, David; Schmitz, Anke; Soltner, Helmut; Bousack, Herbert; Schmitz, Helmut (30 March 2011). "Infrared receptors in pyrophilous ("fire loving") insects as model for new un-cooled infrared sensors". Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. 2: 186–197. doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.22. PMC 3148053. PMID 21977430.
  2. Massey, James L. (1990). "MARCEL J.E. GOLAY (1902-1989) obituary" (PDF). IEEE Information Society Newsletter. June. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  3. Finding Aid to Marcel J. E. Golay, 1931-2002 (bulk 1946-1989). Science History Institute. Science History Institute. Click on 'Golay Box List' to go to full list.
  4. "Patent Database Search Results: PN/4,060,713 in US Patent Collection". patft.uspto.gov.
  5. Golay, M. J. E. (1957). "Vapor Phase Chromatography and Telegrapher's Equation". Anal. Chem. 29 (6): 928–932. doi:10.1021/ac60126a019.
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