Biography - Nathan Marcuvitz

Nathan Marcuvitz was born on December 29, 1913, in New York, N. Y. In 1935 he received the Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where he remained as a graduate fellow until 1936. At this time, he joined the RCA Laboratories as a student engineer and subsequently did advanced development work on electron tubes, iconoscopes, and orthicons for television applications. He returned to the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1940, where he received the Master's degree in 1941.