Charles Herach Papas (March 29, 1918 – July 8, 2007)[citation needed] was an American applied physicist and electrical engineer, known for his contributions to electromagnetic theory, microwaves, radiophysics, gravitational electromagnetics, astrophysics, guided waves, and remote sensing.
[1] After returning to the United States and completing high school, he matriculated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a B.S.
in communications engineering in 1946 and a PhD in electrodynamics in 1948, with a dissertation titled A Theoretical Investigation of Spherically-Capped Conical Antennas advised by Ronold W. P.
From 1950 to 1952 he was with the University of California as a Staff Member of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, as a Consultant to the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and as lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department, Berkeley.
In 1952 Papas accepted a faculty position at the California Institute of Technology where he continued his teaching and research activities for 36 years, and was Director of the Antenna Laboratory.