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DR. HAROLD WILLIAM NICHOLS, a radio research engineer of Bell Telephone Laboratories, died on November 14 at his home in Maplewood, New Jersey, Dr. Nichols was born in Iowa on February 23, 1886. He received his education at Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, and at the University of Chicago. In July 1914, he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City. He rapidly achieved distinction in the radio research activities of that organisation, and during the War, he was in charge of its radio work. During recent years he has been identified prominently with the investigations of ship-to-shore radio telephone service and of. short waves in radio communication. He was recognised as an authority on “fading” his papers on this phase of radio are distinct contributions to the art. He took a leading part in the transatlantic radio telephone tests in 1923, and for a lecture on this subject received the Fahie Premium from the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He had twenty inventions pertaining to the radio art to his credit and nine applications are now pending.
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Dr. Harold W. Nichols. Nature 116, 909 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116909b0
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