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William E. Newell Power Electronics Award

T HE 1996 William E. Newell Power Electronics Award in Baveno, Italy. The award consists of a plaque and an
was presented to Akira Nabae at the IEEE Power E,lec- honorarium of $1750. Thie recipient has been judged to be out-
tronics Society’s annual Awards Banquet, held June 26tlh in standing in the multidisciiplinary field of power electronics that
conjunction with the Power Electronics Specialists Conference crosses the technical boundaries of numerous IEEE Societies.
The Newell Award, which recognizes illustrious achievement
Publisher Item Identifier S 0885-8993(96)09294-0. in power electronics, has been presented annually since 1977.

Akira Nabae (M’79-SM’88-F790) was born in Ehime, Japan, in 1924. He received the B.E.
degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1947 and the Dr. of Eng. degree from Waseda
University in 1978.
He joined Toshiba Corporation in 1951. From 1951 to 1965, in the Engineering Department
at the Tsurumi Works, he was engaged in research and development of mercury-arc rectifiers and
their application to ac locomotives, paper mills, and steel and iron mills. From 1965 to 1978,
he was with the Toshiba Heavy Apparatus Engineering Laboratory, where he was involved in
developing power-transistor PWM inverters and ac drive systems. Concurrently, from I972 to
1978, he was a Lecturer at Waseda University. He retired in 1978 from the Toshiba Corporation
and received an appointment at the Nagaokd University of Technology where, from 1978 to
1990, he was a Professor in the Electrical and Electronics Department and Director of the
Power Electronics Laboratory. In 1990 he moved to the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, where
he is a Professor of Electronics in the Graduate School and Director of the Education and
Research Center for Software Engineering.
Dr. Nabae received the IEEE IAS Static Power Converter Committee Paper Awards in 1980 and 1983 and the IEEJ
Transaction Paper Awards in 1985 and 1990. He also received the IEEE IAS First Prize Transaction Paper Award in 1991
and the IEEJ Outstanding Achievement Award in 1993. He is a Life Member of IEEJ.

Past William E. Newell Award Recipients

1977 Richard G. Hoft 1987 John G. Kassakian

1978 William McMurray 1988 Koosuke Harada
1979 Shashi B. Dewan 1989 Fred C. Lee
1980 Alexander Kusko 1990 Thomas A. Lip0
1981 Thomas G. Wilson
1991 B. Jayant Baliga
1982 R. David Middlebrook
1992 Werner Leonhard
1983 Francisc C. Schwarz
1984 Loren F. Stringer 1993 Robert L. Steigerwald
1985 Klemens Heumann 1994 Laszlo Gyugyi
1986 Philip L. Hower 1995 J. Daan van Wyk

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