Biography
Kron came to the USA in 1921. He studied for a degree in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan. He received citizenship papers in 1926. Then he went on a two-year trip on foot around the world. He published several books and more than fifty papers. He won the Montefiore Prize of the University of Liège, Belgium, for his paper entitled "Non-Riemanriian Dynamics of Rotating Electrical Machinery". He worked for General Electric until 1966.
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