Louis Winslow Austin

Louis Winslow Austin (born Oct. 30, 1867, Orwell, Vt., U.S.—died June 27, 1932, Washington, D.C.) was a physicist known for research on long-range radio transmissions. He was educated at Middlebury College, Vermont, and the University of Strasbourg, Germany. In 1904 he began work on radio transmissions for the U.S. Bureau of Standards. In 1908 Austin became head of a naval radiotelegraphy laboratory at the bureau (later to become the Naval Research Laboratory) and from 1923...