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Robert N. Trebits

Radar engineer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7347938 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert N. Trebits was a researcher in radar-related technologies, and was director of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) from around 1991 until 2006 (15 years) and worked at GTRI from 1972 to 2006 (35 years).

Education

Trebits held a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Career

Trebits joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1972, and became the director of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory around 1991. He retired from GTRI in 2006.

Trebits has since been an adjunct professor at the Southern Polytechnic State University.

Memberships and awards

Trebits was involved in SPIE, in particular being the editor of several publications. In 1997, he was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions and leadership in measuring and characterizing millimeter radar reflectivity and propagation effects".

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The public source identifies “Robert N. Trebits” as radar engineer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Robert, Trebits and Radar.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2006, 1972, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Robert, Trebits and Radar providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Robert N. Trebits” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.