Arthur Chester

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Arthur N. Chester is retired president and general manager of HRL Laboratories, a limited liability company owned jointly by Boeing Company, General Motors and Raytheon Company, and serves as a central R&D laboratory for all three corporations. Chester is recognized as a pioneer in laser technology and an authority in the field of technology management. Chester headed HRL beginning in 1988. From 1988 through 1997, he also served as senior vice president, Research and Technology for Hughes Electronics. A graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the University of Texas, Chester serves on the UC MICRO Board and on Advisory Boards at UCLA, USC and UCR. He has published numerous technical papers and edited 15 books, and is a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense. His most significant book: Integrated Optics (Plenum Press, 1993). Technical achievements: quantitative theories of chemical lasers and of electrophoresis (gas transport) in gas lasers. Principal expertise: Optics, Electro-optics, technical management, electrical and electronic engineering and micro-electronics.