Matthew Lorber
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Matthew Lorber (December 26, 1934 – October 21, 2022)[1] was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur.
Early life and education
[edit]Lorber was raised in Brooklyn, NY, with his parents (Jacob and Estelle Lorber), paternal grandparents (Ester), sisters Joan Rosenman and Elaine Rothstein, and his aunt Lenn. He attended P.S. 197 and graduated from Freeport High School on Long Island. He received his Bachelors (1956) and Masters (1958) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He married Susan Marriott Lorber in 1967.[2][3][4]
Career
[edit]Lorber joined MIT's Instrumentation Lab (later Draper Labs), where he helped develop the inertial navigation system for the U.S. Navy's first submarine-launched ballistic missile. He founded Analog Devices with his classmate Ray Stata in 1965.[5] He later founded Copley Controls,[2] acquired by Analogic Corporation in 2008.[6]
Philanthropy
[edit]Lorber established the Lorber Family Foundation dedicated to expanding opportunities for those less fortunate.
References
[edit]- ^ "Matthew Lorber (1934–2022)". FamilySearch. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
26 December 1934–21 October 2022
- ^ a b "Matthew Lorber - Obituary". Boston Globe, archived from the original. 2022-10-24. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
- ^ "Matthew Lorber (1934–2022) - census record 1940". FamilySearch. Retrieved 18 November 2024. Possible spelling variants of Lohrber or Lokrber for Lorber and Matthews for Matthew
- ^ "Some company founders with MIT degrees". MIT News - Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1997-03-05. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
Mr. Stata founded Analog Devices, Inc. with his former MIT roommate, Matthew Lorber (SB '56, electrical engineering)
- ^ "Analog Devices". Retrieved 2024-11-18.
..two MIT graduates, Ray Stata and Matthew Lorber, launched a new company, which they called Analog Devices.
- ^ "Analogic Corporation Signs Agreement to Acquire Copley Controls Corporation, a Leading Supplier of Gradient Amplifiers for MRI Systems". Press release archived at BioSpace. 2008-03-06. Retrieved 2024-11-18.