Abstract
In the April issue of <i>IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine</i>, I mentioned that the History Committee is interested in receiving proposals for possible IEEE Milestones. Recently, one Milestone possibility was suggested that is quite unique from ones that have been discussed so far and also it was local to me. This is the Thompson-Lampard calculable capacitor [1]. A.M. (Mel) Thompson found experimentally that the capacitance between opposite pairs of cylinders was independent of the diameter of the cylinders. He called on the mathematical expertise of a colleague, Doug G. Lampard, to investigate this further. Out of Lampard's work came a theorem in electromagnetics [1] that was detailed in a publication in 1957 [2].
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