Gerald Posakony

Mr. Posakony was born in Pocahontas, Iowa on May 24, 1925. During World War II he served in the Navy and was responsible for the operation and maintenance of the radar and sonar equipment on board the submarine USS Roncador (SS301).

He attended Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa from 1946 until 1949 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He joined small electronic firm in Denver, Colorado that manufactured high frequency resonant oscillators, frequency maters and preamplifier is for television equipment. He worked for Motorola as a field engineer for Motorola before joining the staff of the University of Colorado, Medical Center in 1953 to work in the field of diagnostic ultrasound.

He became Vice President and General Manager of the Research Division of Automation Industries in Boulder, Colorado, designing and building ultrasonic transducers and systems and electromagnetic instrumentation. He left Automation in 1973 to join the staff of what is now the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA and is currently engaged as a Senior Research Scientist in ultrasonic transducers, ultrasonic wave propagation and sonochemistry.

Mr. Posakony is a Fellow in the ASNT and ASTM and past Member of ASME and ASM. He holds the ASTM Award of Merit, the ASNT Gold Medal Award, and the AIUM Medical Pioneer and Lester Lecture Awards. He has served on the Board of Directors of both the ASTM and ASNT. He holds 14 Patents and has authored and co-authored more that 80 technical papers.