Abstract :
J.H. Dellinger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, July 3, 1886. He was educated at Western Reserve (1903-07), George Washington University (A.B. degree, 1908), and Princeton University (1912-13, Ph.D. degree in 1913). He was an instructor in the physics department of Western Reserve in 1906-07. Dr. Dellinger joined the staff of the Bureau of Standards as physicist in 1905. From 1919 to date he has been Chief of the Bureau´s Radio Section. He has been particularly active in special government service. In 1912 he was a US delegate to the Interallied Technical Conference on Radio Communication at Paris and member of technical staff of the Conference on Limitation of Armament and Far East Problems, at Washington. In 1922-23 he served as secretary of the US Government Inter-department Radio Advisory Committee. He was a member of all four National Radio Conferences (1922-25), and since 1924 has been chairman of the Committee on Radio Apparatus, Federal Specifications Board. Dr. Dellinger was on the technical advisory staff of the International Radio Conference at Washington in 1927 and has recently left for The Hague, where he is one of the technical advisors to the American Delegation of the International Technical Consulting Committee. Dr. Dellinger was vice-president of the Institute in 1924 and president in 1925. In 1928 he was Chairman of the Committee on Meetings and Papers and is the present chairman of the Committee on Standardization. He was elected a member of the Board of Direction of the Institute by the membership in 1928 to serve until 1931. He is a Fellow in the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Physical Society.
