Francis John Fry, a long-time Fellow of the Society, died 22 Sept. 2005.Frank, as he was known to his colleagues, was born 2 April 1920, in Johnstown, Pa, his mother being an infant survivor of the 1889 Johnstown Flood. He received the B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1940 and the M.S. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1946, both in electrical engineering. From 1940 to 1946 he was a design engineer for the Westinghouse Electric Corp., where he designed circuitry for the Grand Coulee Dam. This period also included his being a consultant to the Manhattan Project on development of the mass separation techniques for the atomic bomb project
In 1946, Frank joined his brother, William J. (Bill) Fry, at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois. Their laboratory, the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, became internationally renowned for its numerous in-depth and detailed studies of the biological...