Roger Fuller Harrington (born December 24, 1925) is an American electrical engineer and professor emeritus at Syracuse University.
[2] Harrington's 1968 book, Field Computation by Moment Methods, is regarded as a pivotal textbook on the subject.
He started majoring in electrical engineering in 1943 at Syracuse University; his studies were interrupted in the following year by World War II.
[5][6][2] The development of the method stemmed from Harrington's initial interest in using electromagnetic fields in thermonuclear fusion research.
[2] Harrington also expanded Lan Jen Chu and Harold Alden Wheeler's theory on the fundamental limits of electrically small radio antennas;[7][8] Chu–Harrington limit, which yields a lower bound for the Q factor of a small radio antenna, is named after him.