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Sidney Topol : ウィキペディア英語版 | Sidney Topol
An innovator and entrepreneur, Sidney Topol was a contributor to several key developments in the telecommunications industries in the latter half of the twentieth century. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1947) and an engineer and executive at Raytheon and later Scientific-Atlanta. Topol's expertise in microwave systems led to the development of the first effective portable television relay links, allowing broadcasts from even remote areas. His foray into satellite technologies in the 1960s provided the foundation for building the emerging cable television industry, permitting the transmission of transoceanic television broadcasts. Topol also played a pivotal role in the development of international telecommunications trade policies and the promotion of high definition television (HDTV), a technology that enhances video images by using digital, instead of analog, encoding techniques. retiring in the early 1990s, Topol has been engaged in philanthropic work, contributing to the educational and cultural life in Boston and Atlanta.
== Early Life and Education ==
Topol was born in Boston, MA in 1924, to Polish immigrant parents. He graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1941. In 1943, after two years as a student at University of Massachusetts, he joined the Army Air Corps, where he was trained as a radar specialist. After the war, Topol completed an undergraduate degree in physics at University of Massachusetts, trained briefly at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and then enrolled in a master's program at the University of California, Berkeley.〔
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