Curriculum Vitae

Verner Edward Suomi
Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D., 1953, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• B.E. 1938, Winona State Teacher’s College, Winona, Minnesota
•         1933-35, Eveleth Junior College, Eveleth, Minnesota

Work experience

• Founder and Director, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 1965-1988


• Founder and first Director, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 1980-1984


• Chief Scientist, United States Weather Bureau, Washington, DC, 1964-1965


• Associate Program Director for Atmospheric Science, National Science Foundation, 1962


• Professor, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 1948-1986


• Instructor and student, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1943-1948


• Teacher, Faribault Public School, Faribault, Minnesota, 1940-1943


• Teacher, Sleepy Eye Public School, Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, 1939-1940


• Teacher, New York Hills High School, New York Hills, Minnesota, 1938-1939

Research interests
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Publications
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Patents

• Suomi, V. E., Inventor. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), Assignee. Non-resonant antenna for wind profilers. Issued August 18, 1992. United States Patent Number 5,140,336.
  Retrieved from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


• Suomi, V. E., Inventor. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), Assignee. Heat flow sensing apparatus and method. Issued June 4, 1991. United States Patent Number 5,020, 919.
  Retrieved from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


• Suomi, V.E., Kuhn, P. M., Inventors. Radiation measuring device. Issued July 23, 1963. United States Patent Number 3,098,380.
  Retrieved from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


• Bohl, L.S., Gergen, J. L., and V.E. Suomi, Inventors. Atmospheric infrared radiation detector. Issued December 26, 1961. United States Patent Number 3,014,369.
  Retrieved from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


• Suomi, V.E., Winzen, O.C., Inventors. Balloon structure and method of launching the same. Issued December 29, 1959. United States Patent Number 2,919,083.
  Retrieved from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


• Suomi, V.E., Inventor. Audio-frequency recorder. Issued September 12, 1950. United States Patent Number 2,521,881.
  Retrieved from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Foreign languages

• Swedish, German, French

Committee involvement and awards
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