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293 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine millimeter-wave receivers; high-speed, high-dy- namic-range photodetectors; and arrays for optical processing and insulators for metal-insu- lator-semiconductor infrared focal plane arrays. Dr. Anderson receivedaBEEandME in1959, both fromCornell University. He later obtained an MS in physics in 1961 and a PhD in physics in 1969, both from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He commenced his career as a research assistant, and in 1965, became an instructor at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. From 1969 to 1998, Dr. Anderson was a research physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and also spent 1991 to 1997 as their technology advisor. In 1998, Dr. Anderson took on his role with the Office of Secretary of Defenses’ Defense Technology Security Administration, in which he excelled until his retirement in 2008. From 2009 to 2013, he was an adjunct professor of the City University of New York. Throughout his career, Dr. Anderson was also a consultant for the Institute for Defense Analysis and Planning & Human Systems in Washington, D.C. Looking back on his years of research, Dr. Anderson is most proud of his contributions to vanadium phosphate conducting glasses for his doctoral dissertation, as well as his work with the Wassenaar Arrangement as a representative for the United States. He is happy to have seen an increase in people of color enter the field, alongside his efforts with Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, which has made it easier for students of color to access an advanced education close to home. With his research in the structure of vanadium phosphate semiconducting glasses and Navy development, management and evaluation, Dr. Andersonwas the recipient of the Exceptional Civil Services Award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Defense Technology Security Administration in 2008, among other recognitions. H ailing from a line of railroad civil en- gineers, Dr. Gordon Wood Anderson grew up around trains on the northern shore of Chicago and spent his youth watching trains being built. Following in the footsteps of his family and his passions, Dr. Anderson is now known for the development of channelizer technology for RF, microwave and GORDON WOOD ANDERSON, PHD PHYSICIST, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, PROFESSOR City University of New York New York, NY SCIENCES, PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY