Arthur V. Loughren

Arthur V. Loughren (1902 to 1993) was an American electrical engineer who played a prominent part in the development of NTSC color television. Born in Rensselaer, New York, he earned his bachelor's degree in 1923 and an electrical engineering degree in 1925 from Columbia University. He worked in the vacuum tube and radio engineering departments of General Electric and then in the engineering department of RCA before joining the Hazeltine Corporation in 1936. During World War II he helped develop identification friend or foe equipment for the United States Navy, and after the war he directed Hazeltine's research on color television, work that fed into the compatible color standard. He was a fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He received the 1953 SMPTE David Sarnoff Medal, the 1955 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, and served as president of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1956. He died at his home in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.