death_place death_date birth_place citizenship field birth_date known_for prizes article_title name
columbus , north carolina 16 february 1996 vienna , austria united states electrical engineering 06 september 1901 pioneer york university , first president of ieee , co-founder nae microwave technologies , history polytechnic institute of new aiee medal -lrb- 1971 -rrb- , national medal of science -lrb- education 1987 -rrb- medal -lrb- 1960 -rrb- , ieee founders ernst weber -lrb- engineer -rrb-
 ernst weber
ernst weber -lrb- engineer -rrb-

ernst weber -lrb- september 6 , 1901 in vienna , austria -- february 16 , 1996 in columbus , north carolina -rrb- , austria-born american electrical engineer , was a pioneer in microwave technologies and played an important role in the history of the polytechnic institute of new york university , where in 1945 he founded the microwave research institute -lrb- later renamed the weber research institute in his honor -rrb- .
weber was also the first president of the institute of electrical and electronics engineers -lrb- ieee -rrb- and one of the founders of the u.s. national academy of engineering -lrb- nae -rrb- .
