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Biographie de John Plumb

John Plumb is a retired electrical engineeer, who earned his B. S. degree at Iowa State University. After serving in the Air Force he was employed by the Minneapolis-Honeywell Aeronautical Division. He then did graduate study in solid-state electronics, earning advanced degrees at the University of Minnesota and New York University, and joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut. After a brief employment at Transitron Electronics in integrated circuit design, he was then employed by Sylvania Lighting Products and worked on electroluminescent thin-film display and high-pressure sodium lamp products, on which he has published a number of papers and been awarded a number of patents.
Dr. Plumb now lives with his wife Mary in Danvers, Massachusetts and they winter in Venice, Florida. They have a daughter and a son.