Edward Lawry Norton
Edward Lawry Norton was an American acoustics and circuits engineer and scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and is known for Norton's theorem.
His areas of active research included network theory, acoustical systems, electromagnetic apparatus, and data transmission. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University, he held nineteen patents on his work.
Edward L. Norton is known for development of the dual of Thevenin's equivalent circuit, currently referred to as Norton's equivalent circuit.
Biography
Edward Lawry Norton served as a radio operator in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.He attended the University of Maine for two years before transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1922. He received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1925.
He was interested in communications circuit theory and the transmission of data at high speeds over telephone lines. Norton began his telephone career in 1922 with Western Electric's engineering department, which later became Bell Laboratories.
Edward Lawry Norton was one of the founders of the Acoustical Society of America at the Bell Laboratories Building in New York City on December 27, 1928.
After the World War II, Norton worked on the circuits for the Nike missile control system.
In 1962, he was named an Institute of Radio Engineers fellow.
In 1963, Norton retired after serving as a head of the High Speed Data Terminals Department at Bell Lab in Holmdel Township, New Jersey.
Norton died on January 28, 1983, in King James Nursing Home, Chatham, New Jersey.