Edward Leland Petersen, age 87, of Warrenton, VA, USA, passed away on April 1, 2020. Ed received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in nuclear physics from the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA. He joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1969 as a member of the Radiation Effects Branch where he initiated his research in the area of Single Event Effects (SEEs) in electronic circuits. He made seminal contributions to the understanding of the physical mechanisms responsible for SEEs and applied that understanding to the prediction, based on laboratory experiments, of SEEs in space. Several experiments on a satellite, Microelectronics and Photonics Test Bed, integrated by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and launched in 1997, confirmed the accuracy of his predictions. His “Figure-of-Merit” approach to the calculation of error-rates has proved particularly valuable and is widely used for quick estimations of error rates.

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在纪念爱德华·利兰·彼得森（Edward Leland Petersen）中

美国弗吉尼亚州沃伦顿市现年87岁的爱德华·莱兰德·彼得森（Edward Leland Petersen）于2020年4月1日去世。埃德获得了美国俄勒冈州科瓦利斯俄勒冈州立大学的物理学学士学位和硕士学位，并获得了博士学位。获得美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）核物理博士学位。他于1969年加入海军研究实验室，担任辐射效应分会的成员，在那里他开始了电子电路单事件效应（SEE）领域的研究。他为理解SEE的物理机制做出了开创性的贡献，并将这种理解应用于基于实验室实验的太空SEE的预测。由海军研究实验室（NRL）整合并于1997年发射的卫星，微电子学和光子学试验台上的几个实验，证实了他的预测的准确性。他的“品质因数”方法用于错误率的计算已被证明特别有价值，并被广泛用于错误率的快速估计。