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[[File:Ropiequet_1959.jpg|thumb| | [[File:Ropiequet_1959.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Dick Ropiequet, 1959]] | ||
{{Person | |||
|Names=Richard Lincoln Ropiequet | |||
|Birth date=8 May 1920 | |||
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|Death date=25 April 2011 | |||
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|Affiliations=University of Illinois ; Tektronix; | |||
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}} was a Tektronix engineer. | |||
With a background as a Navy electronics technician and a BS in chemical engineering from University of Illinois (1946), “Rope” joined the company in 1949. | |||
eventually rising to the position of Executive Vice President of Engineering. | He was a key figure in early Tek, eventually rising to the position of Executive Vice President of Engineering and CRT Research. He left Tektronix in 1963. | ||
He left in | |||
==Tek Products== | |||
Ropiequet is credited with creating the precision sweep generator for models [[315]] and [[310]] | |||
that for the first time permitted time calibration and led to the term “Time-Base” being adopted. | that for the first time permitted time calibration and led to the term “Time-Base” being adopted. | ||
{{Designer|Dick Ropiequet}} | |||
{{Patents|Dick Ropiequet}} | |||
==Publications== | |||
* http://www.infiniteparticlephysics.com/ | |||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* http://www.vintagetek.org/2011/10/richard-lincoln-ropiequet/ | * http://www.vintagetek.org/2011/10/richard-lincoln-ropiequet/ | ||
* [http://www.worldsci.org/php/index.php?tab0=Scientists&tab1=Display&tab2=Display&id=182 World Science database] | |||
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Dick Ropiequet.jpg | |||
Ropiequet_1959.jpg|1959 | |||
1958_Dick_Ropiequet.jpg|1958 | |||
Dick Ropiequet in lab.jpg | |||
</gallery> | |||
[[Category:Tektronix people]] | [[Category:Tektronix people]] | ||