Robert Emmanuel Collin (24 October 1928 – 29 November 2010) was a Canadian American electrical engineer, university professor, and life fellow of the IEEE,[3] known for his fundamental contributions in applied electromagnetism.
He worked at the Canadian Armament and Research Development Establishment on guided missile antennas, radomes and radar system evaluations.
[8][9][10] Among his students, Collin was viewed as remarkable for his ability to recount the uttermost details of lengthy mathematical proofs from memory.
He was recognized as an outstanding scholar of microwave and radar engineering and relativistic electrodynamics based on tensor calculus.
[12] This textbook have been noted for its comprehensiveness and rigorous mathematical treatments[13] and recommended by John David Jackson as one of the best references regarding the "sources and excitation of oscillations in waveguides and cavities.