John Vincent Lawless Hogan

John Vincent Lawless Hogan (1890 to 1960) was an American radio engineer, inventor and an early leader of the professional body that later became part of the IEEE. Born in Philadelphia on 14 February 1890 and raised in New York, he assisted Lee de Forest as a teenager, studied electrical engineering at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and in 1909 became a telegraph engineer with Reginald Fessenden's National Electric Signaling Company, where he took part in the long-range wireless tests of 1912 and 1913 using the Arlington station and the cruiser USS Salem. He helped found the Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers, whose merger with the Wireless Institute formed the Institute of Radio Engineers, and he became its president in 1920. From 1921 he ran Hogan Laboratories, a consulting firm, held patents for a rectifying heterodyne circuit and for single dial tuning of radio sets, co-founded the station that became WQXR, and developed a radio facsimile system able to send a whole newspaper page. He received the IRE Medal of Honor in 1956 and died on 29 December 1960.