JOHN ELDON BRECKENRIDGE PIPPIN
Son of Festus and Mary Elvie (Scott) Pippin
Married Barbara Ann Pippin, June 15, 1952
Predeceased – November 13, 2002
Brother: Charles Packwood – DeLand, FL
Sister: Shirley Pippin McCall – Kissimmee, FL
Children: Carol Jean Pippin Fisher (Carey) – Duluth, GA, John Festus Pippin (Eleanor) – Alpharetta, GA, Mary Christine Pippin Mobley(Gene) – Bishop, GA
Grandchildren: John Gary Pippin, Stephanie Marie Pippin, Asheley Jean Franklin Croy (Bryan), Jennifer Lynn Mobley, Todd Mitchell Franklin, Jessica Nicole Mobley, Margie Anne Fisher Great Grandchildren: Syrus Grant Mobley, Addison Anne Franklin
Sister-in-Law: Billie Jean Jennings – Valley, AL
Nephew: Robert Eugene Jennings – Valley, AL
Niece: Benita Jennings Mezick (Darryl) – Valley, AL
United States Navy 1945 -46
B.E.E., Georgia Tech – 1951
M.S.E.E., Georgia Tech – 1953
Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Harvard University – 1958
Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology Experiment Station, Atlanta, GA 1951-53
Head, Research Dept., Sperry Microwave Electronics Co., Clearwater, FL 1958-64 Adjunct Professor, University of Florida 1962 -64
V.P. Director of Research, Scientific Atlanta, Inc. Atlanta, GA 1964-68
Founder, President, CEO, Chairman of the Board, Electromagnetic Sciences, Inc. Norcross, GA 1968-1998
National Science Foundation Fellow
IEEE Fellow (Outstanding Engineer Region III 1972; Engineer of the Year 1972)
Entrepreneur of the Year (Engineers of Greater Atlanta) - 1973
Georgia Technology Hall of Fame (inaugural inductee) - 1993
Inducted into Georgia Institute of Technology Engineering Hall of Fame - 1994 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair in Electromagnetics - 1997
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar - 1998
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair in Wireless Communications - 1998
Member:
Mount Carmel United Methodist Church – Norcross, GA
Briarean Society (cooperative honorary society)
American Physics Society
Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (Administrative Committee)
Sigma Xi
Tau Beta Pi
Phi Kappa Phi
Eta Kappa Nu