Hermann Anton Haus
Born	August 8, 1925 Ljubljana,Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died	May 21, 2003(2003-05-21) (aged 77) Lexington, Massachusetts
Nationality	Slovenian
Alma mater	Union College (BS) - 1949 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MS) - 1951[1] MIT (ScD) - 1954
Known for	Optical communications
Awards	IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal(1991) Frederic Ives Medal(1994)National Medal of Science(1995)
Scientific career
Fields	Optical communications,Electrical Engineering,Applied Physics
Institutions	MIT
Thesis	Propagation of noise and signals along electron beams at microwave frequencies (1954)
Doctoral advisor	Lan Jen Chu

Hermann Anton Haus (August 8, 1925 – May 21, 2003) was anAustrian-Americanphysicist,electrical engineer, andInstitute Professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2] Haus' research and teaching ranged from fundamental investigations ofquantum uncertainty as manifested inoptical communications to the practical generation of ultra-short optical pulses. In 1994, theOptical Society of America recognized Dr. Haus' contributions with itsFrederic Ives Medal, the society's highest award. He also received OSA'sCharles Hard Townes Medal in 1987, and was a Fellow of the society.^[3] Haus authored or co-authored eight books (see section below), published nearly 300 articles, and presented his work at virtually every major conference and symposium on laser and quantum electronics and quantum optics around the world. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1995 and was adopted into RPI's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2007.

He was a grandson of the Austrian admiralAnton Haus. His father,Otto Maximilian Haus, was a leading Slovenian doctor who investigatedtuberculosis. The tomb of his great-grandmother Marija Haus (Walter) is still inBubnjarci, Croatia.

• H. A. Haus and R. B. Adler, Circuit Theory of Linear Noisy Networks (The MIT Press, 1959).
• H. A. Haus, Noise in Electron Devices (The MIT Press, 1959)
• H. A. Haus and J. P. Penhune, Case Studies in Electromagnetism: Problems with Solutions (Wiley, 1960).
• P. Penfield and H. A. Haus, Electrodynamics of Moving Media (The MIT Press, 1967).
• H. A. Haus, Waves and Fields in Optoelectronics (Prentice Hall, Incorporated, 1984).
• H. A. Haus and J. R. Melcher, Electromagnetic Fields and Energy (Prentice Hall, 1989).
• H. A. Haus, Electromagnetic Noise and Quantum Optical Measurements (Springer Science & Business Media, 2000).
• C. Manolatou and H. A. Haus, Passive Components for Dense Optical Integration (Springer Science & Business Media, 2002).

• List of textbooks in electromagnetism

• An interview with Prof. Haus - RLE currents vol 1, no. 2, p. 7, June 1988
• A Biographical Memoir by Erich P. Ippen - NAS
• H. A. Haus, Reminiscence of a teacher and a researcher
• Haus at the RPI Alumni Hall of Fame
• MIT News Office obituary
• The Tech (MIT student newspaper) obituaryArchived 2012-03-16 at theWayback Machine
• The Hermann Anton Haus Fund - RLE MIT

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