Heinz Schlicke (December 13, 1912 – April 18, 2006), was a German-born engineer and author, an

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scientist, and engineer at the

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Co. in

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. He received both his Master's and Doctor's degrees in engineering sciences at the Institute of Technology in

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in 1937, working under Dr.

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. His thesis subject was on the "Entrainment of Oscillators and Sub-Harmonics". During

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he served in the ''

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'' working his way from the rank of Naval Engineer (Marinebaurat) to Lieutenant-Commander (Korvettenkapitan). Near the end of the war he was sent on a special mission to transport high-technology information and supplies to

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on board the submarine ''U-234''. On May 8, 1945, the war with Germany ended, and on May 14 the ''U-234'' surrendered to the United States. Schlicke was taken to a secret

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camp codenamed P. O. Box 1142, based in

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. He was repatriated to Germany in 1946, but was invited to return to the United States to work under

at the

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. His work there consisted of what is now known as

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. In September, 1950 he accepted a job with the Allen-Bradley Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to manage the development of ferrite based electronic components. While working there, he authored the book ''Essentials of Dielectromagnetic Engineering'' in 1961 which deals with ferrites and

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materials. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became involved with Electromagnetic compatibility EMC issues, becoming the president of the

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, and in 1967 an

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. He retired from Allen-Bradley in 1974, but continued to work in the EMC field consulting and authoring another book ''Electromagnetic Compossibility'' in 1982. In 1994 he coauthored a

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book with his son Lutz Schlicke, titled ''Ready for any Challenge.'' Dr. Schlicke died in his sleep in 2006 at the age of 93.

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