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Thomas Haug
Engineer

Thomas Haug

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Helping standardise international mobile telephone networks.

NMT · Draper Prize

Born
26 April 1927
Birthplace
Bærum Municipality
Died
9 December 2023

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Thomas Haug

Thomas Haug was a Norwegian-Swedish electrical engineer involved in Nordic mobile telephony and GSM.

Early life

Training

Earned an electrical-engineering degree in Trondheim in 1951 and later studied at KTH.

Career

  1. Early career

    Radio engineering

    Worked at Ericsson and Westinghouse.

  2. 1966

    Telecommunications board

    Joined Sweden’s telecommunications authority.

  3. GSM

    Standards leadership

    Chaired the European mobile-standardisation work through 1992.

Contributions

NMT

Helped develop Nordic Mobile Telephone and cross-border roaming.

Draper Prize

Shared the engineering prize for cellular telephony.

Beyond work

International cooperation

Worked across national telecommunications authorities to establish compatible networks.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Wilkus. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.