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Ferdo Ivanek
Born(1923-06-01)June 1, 1923
DiedOctober 2, 2021(2021-10-02) (aged 98)
Alma mater
SpouseVojka Ivanek
ChildrenŽeljko and Ivan Ivanek
Parent(s)Ivan and Lily Ivanek
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
Microwave engineering
Institutions

Ferdo Ivanek (June 1, 1923 – October 2, 2021) was an American electrical engineer of Yugoslav origin. He is best known for his contributions to microwave oscillators and amplifiers. He is the father of the American actor Željko Ivanek.

Biography

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Ferdinand Ivanek was born in Ljubljana, and grew up in the village of Zajezda in Hrvatsko zagorje, and then moved to Varaždin where he completed middle school.[1] During World War II, Ivanek's parents were hung by the fascist Ustaše, while he also lost some 20 Jewish relatives on his mother's side, in Ustaše and Nazi concentration camps, as recounted in a book by his cousin Paul Schreiner.[2][3][4][5]

Ivanek received his engineer's degree at the Technical High School in Zagreb (today's University of Zagreb) in 1948.[6] Afterwards he moved to Vienna to study electrical engineering,[1] and he received his bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from TU Wien.[7] Between 1949 and 1955 Ivanek worked for his scholarship at the Central Radio Institute in Belgrade, then moved to Ljubljana where his family spent another decade.[1] Between 1956 and 1957, he was employed at the University of Ljubljana's Institute for Telecommunications.[8]

At the time in Yugoslavia, he worked in Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Split before he moved abroad.[6] In 1959, he emigrated to the United States to work as a research assistant at Stanford University's Microwave Integrated Circuits Laboratory, where he remained until 1962.[9]

He received his doctorate in Vienna in 1964.[8] He later also obtained a doctorate in Zagreb in 1965.[6] Between 1964 and 1967, when the Ljubljana research institute that specialized in radio equipment design and manufacturing was named the Institute for Automation (later part of the Iskra conglomerate), he was an advisor and a manager of research projects.[8]

In 1967, he returned to the United States to work at Fairchild Semiconductor's Research and Development Division, where he focused on the applications of solid-state microwave devices. In 1986, he left Fairchild to establish Communications Research, a consulting firm. In 1995, he became an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University's Department of Engineering Economics Systems.[9]

Having served as the chairman of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society's local chapters, Ivanek became the society's 1991 president.[9] He became a fellow member of IEEE in 1993, for "his contributions to the development of fundamental-frequency/microwave oscillators and amplifiers and their application in analog and digital radio relay systems."[10] Ivanek also co-authored and edited the book, Terrestrial Digital Microwave Communications (1989). He was the recipient of IEEE Third Millennium Medal.[9]

Ivanek was married to Vojka Ivanek until her death in 2010; his wife worked at Stanford University as a project manager.[11] Ivanek died on October 2, 2021, and was survived by his sons, Ivan and Željko Ivanek.[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Suhić, Nevenka (September 6, 2011). "Za Varaždin me vežu sjećanja na mladost" [My childhood memories from Varaždin]. Regionalni Tjednik (in Croatian). No. 381. Varaždin, Croatia: Regionalni Tjednik d.o.o. p. 20. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
  2. ^ Schreiner, Paul (2014). Spašeni iz Zagreba. Zagreb: Fraktura. ISBN 978-953266582-6. Rodoslovlja obitelji Paula Schreinera, Ive Reicha i Medee Eppinger Brukner
  3. ^ Godeč, Željka (March 29, 2015). "Kronika stradanja Paula Schreinera - Čak 20 članova njegove obitelji smaknuo je režim NDH" [The chronicle of Paul Schreiner's suffering - As many as 20 members of his family were executed by the NDH regime]. Jutarnji list (in Croatian). Retrieved March 1, 2022.
  4. ^ Šimunković, Mario (2019). Naslijeđe revolucije - Vodič kroz spomen obilježja posvećena Narodnooslobodilačkoj borbi u zaprešićkom kraju. Zagreb / Zaprešić: Proksima - udruga za edukaciju i razvoj / Udruga antifašističkih boraca i antifašista Grada Zaprešića i okolnih općina Brdovec, Bistra, Dubravica, Jakovlje, Luka, Marija Gorica i Pušća. p. 150. ISBN 9789535958437. Na ovom mjestu 26. kolovoza 1944. zbog akcije od 18. VIII 1944. fašističkom rukom izvršena je odmazda vješanjem 36 boraca i članova NOP-a,taoca iz zagrebačkih zatvora: [...] Ivanek ing. Ivan 1894. Premba, Ivanek Lili 1902. Sant Gothart
  5. ^ Dobrovšak, Ljiljana; Sironić, Domagoj, eds. (2014). Povijest bistranskog kraja do 1990 [History of Bistra until 1990] (in Croatian). Bistra, Croatia: Municipality of Bistra. p. 109. ISBN 978-953-6666-83-6. Nakon akcije kod Ivanca (18. kolovoza 1944.), kada je 35 ustaša ubijeno, 5 ranjeno i jedan zarobljen,u općini Jablanovec 26. kolovoza 1944. obješeno je 36 mještana..Kao žrtve fašističkog terora od 1941. do 1945. navode se: [...] – Ivanek (Ivan) Ivan, rođ. 1898. u Češkoj, rudarski inženjer, obješen 1944. u Jablanovcu kao talac za odmazdu; – Ivanek Lili, rođ. 1900., živjela u Budinšćini, obješena 1944. u Jablanovcu; {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  6. ^ a b c City Library "Metel Ožegović" Varaždin. "Ferdo Ivanek". Metelwin library author catalog (in Croatian). Varaždin, Croatia: Point d.o.o. / Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin, University of Zagreb. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  7. ^ a b Goodrich, Joanna (November 12, 2021). "Founder of MIT's Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88 IEEE also mourns the loss of a former society president". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  8. ^ a b c Pol stoletja usmerjenih zvez v Sloveniji [50th Anniversary of Radio-Relay Communications in Slovenia] (PDF) (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Iskra Transmission, d. d. 2004. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  9. ^ a b c d e Hausner, Jerry (January 10, 2022). "In Memoriam: Dr. Ferdo Ivanek". IEEE Microwave Magazine. 23 (2): 101. doi:10.1109/MMM.2021.3126823. S2CID 245871920.
  10. ^ a b "IEEE Fellows 1993". IEEE Communications Society. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  11. ^ a b c "Ferdo Ivanek". mtt.org. IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  12. ^ Suhić, Nevenka (October 18, 2011). "Ponosan na svoje korijene!" [Proud of his roots!]. Regionalni Tjednik (in Croatian). No. 387. Varaždin, Croatia: Regionalni Tjednik d.o.o. p. 11. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
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