1946 Edison medal presentation: Lee de Forest

PRESENTATION of the 1946 Edison Medal to Lee de Forest (F '18) “for pioneering achievements in radio and for the invention of a grid-controlled vacuum tube with its profound technical and social consequences” was made by AIEE President J. Elmer Housley on Tuesday, January 27, at a general session of the 1947 AIEE winter meeting. David Sarnoff (M '23) introduced the medalist. The history of the medal itself was given in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING for February 1947, page 122.