To 100-years anniversary of professor Ya.N.Fel’d
The article is devoted to a memory of an outstanding scientist and a wonderful person, Yakov Feld whose centenary is celebrated in 2012. A brief story is given about his life and activities, his huge contribution to creation of the diffraction theory and to foundation of the modern antenna theory, fine text-books by which many thousands of different generations of antenna specialists have studied. The active scientific c and organizational activity of Yakov Feld as a superviser of the Applied Electromagnetics section Journal of Communications, Technology and Electronics and as a creator and a Head of the USSR diffraction seminar is described. It is noted that these two aspects of his many-year activities had played an invaluable role in formation of highly skilled young scientists. The article is based on recollections of the author who used to be in tight contacts during several tens of years with a person whose jubilee is celebrated.