Manfred (Fred) Schindler: MTT-S Honorary Life Member [Awards]

Fred Schindler (
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) was born in the spring of 1957 in Vienna, Austria. That summer, the family moved to Dayton, Ohio, when his father, Max, took a position with the Air Force at Wright Labs. One year later, the Schindlers moved to New Jersey when Max took a job designing microwave electron tubes for the Radio Corporation of America. Maximilian Josef Schindler and Manfred Johannes Schindler shared initials, which would subsequently result in Max’s publications occasionally being credited to Fred, who was not, in fact, an engineering prodigy in kindergarten.