Carl E. Patton was born in San Antonio, Texas on September 14, 1941. He obtained the B.S. degree in physics in 1963 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he investigated crystal field spectra at the National Magnet Laboratory. He obtained the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1964 and 1967, respectively, from the California Institute of Technology, where he studied dynamic magnetization processes, domain wall dynamics, and ferromagnetic resonance in thin films.

Dr. Patton joined the Raytheon Research Division, Waltham, Massachusetts in 1967, where he worked on microwave relaxation and nonlinear processes in ferrites. He joined the Physics faculty at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado in 1971 as an Associate Professor. In 1976, Dr. Patton was advanced to the rank of Professor. At Colorado State University, he continued research on ferrite materials, and initiated new work on magnetism in metals and alloys, magnetism in lunar matter, and Brillouin light scattering in magnetic systems. Current research interests include millimeter wave ferrite materials, Brillouin light scattering in magnetic systems, spin-wave instability and nonlinear microwave professes in microwave magnetics, off-resonance microwave losses and effective linewidth, magnetic excitations in magnetic superlattices, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, ferrite-ferroelectric composite materials, and microwave solitons in thin magnetic films.

Dr. Patton has held various visiting appointments worldwide: Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo and Tohoku University, Sendai (1969-1970, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship); Institute of Physics, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague (1973 and 1979, National Academy of Science Exchange Fellowship); Institut fur Angewandte Festkorperphysik, University of Freiburg, West Germany (1977 - 1978, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship); Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada (1984 - 1985); NIST, Boulder, Colorado (1991 - 1992), Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany (1999-2000, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship).

Dr. Patton is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1985), and a Fellow of the IEEE (1989). He has served as Newsletter Editor for the IEEE Magnetics Society (1973-1976), as a member of numerous program committees for the IEEE sponsored Intermag Conference and the Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, as a Reviews Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (1984-1986), as Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions (1987-1991), and as a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society. He served as Program Co-Chairman for the 1987 Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Chicago) and was the General Chairman for the 1990 Conference (San Diego). Dr. Patton was an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer for 1993 and 1994, with 58 lectures in six countries. He was the 1998/1999 Chair of the newly formed Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications under the American Physical Society. In April 2000 he was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

Dr. Patton has authored or co-authored over 170 publications in the archival technical literature on research in basic and applied magnetics. He has been the recipient of development awards, research grants, and contracts from various government agencies and industrial organizations such as the National Science Foundation, NASA, NATO, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, Verbatim, Ampex, Rockwell International, TRW, Honeywell, Sandia National Laboratories, Phillips Petroleum, and CMI Technology, with total funding in excess of 6.4 million dollars. He has held consulting appointments with Westinghouse, Northrop Aviation, Northrop-Grumman, Boeing Aerospace, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

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