Julian J. Bussgang
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March 26, 1925 Lwow, Poland |
| Spouse | Fay Bussgang |
| Children | Jessica Edith Bussgang Julia Claire Bussgang Jeffrey Joseph Bussgang |
Julian Jakub Bussgang (born 1925) is a mathematician, entrepreneur and author. He is most known for publishing the Bussgang theorem and for his work in the field of Applied Physics and communications. He has published several technical papers and holds six patents.
Bussgang was born in Poland in 1925 into an assimilated Jewish family. Two weeks after the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939, Bussgang's family fled Poland for fear of religious persecution. For the next decade, Bussgang was a refugee moving from country to country with his family. After serving in the Polish Division of the British Army in World War II, he immigrated to the United States where he established a career in the field of signal processing, information theory, and communications. He founded the high technology firm Signatron Inc. in 1962, which was acquired by Sundstrand Corporation in 1984.
After his retirement, Bussgang volunteered in Warsaw and Krakow with the International Executive Service Corps to help privatize Polish industrial firms. In 2011, President Komorowski presented Bussgang with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland at The Polish Consulate in New York City for his activities promoting Polish-Jewish dialogue.
Along with his wife, Fay, he has translated several books from Polish to English.
Bussgang was born in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) on March 26, 1925. His father, Jozef Bussgang, was a businessman. Bussgang and his family faced relatively little anti-Semitism in Poland until Hitler’s influence began being felt in Poland. Germany invaded Poland from the west on September 1, 1939. When the German army started advancing, the Bussgang family decided to leave the country. They had heard of Nazi treatment of Jews and were afraid what would happen to them under German rule. Two weeks after World War II started, Bussgang and his family left their home in Lwow and started travelling south towards Romania with Bussgang's uncle and aunt in their car. Bussgang's uncle and aunt had visas to Romania, so they crossed the Romanian border earlier, but the border guard would not allow Bussgang and his family to cross since they did not have visas, until Julian's father gave the guard a bribe.
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