ECRM Founder Dr. William F. Schreiber Passes Away

Though the funeral was private, a commemoration of Dr. Schreiber’s life will be held at the M.I.T. Faculty Club at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday November 21, 2009.

Dr. Schreiber: Accomplished and Respected

Dr. Schreiber attended the New York City public schools and Columbia University, where he received the B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering. In 1953, he received a PhD in applied physics at Harvard University, where he was a Gordon McKay and Charles Coffin fellow. Dr. Schreiber worked at Sylvania from 1947 to 1949 and at Technicolor Corporation in Hollywood, California from 1953 to 1959. From l959 until his retirement in l990, he was a faculty member at M.I.T as Professor of Electrical Engineering.