About Kees Teer
Lived 1925 – 2021 (aged 95–96). Kees Teer was a Dutch university teacher and electrical engineer.
Kees Teer (6 June 1925 – 18 January 2021) was a Dutch electrical engineer. He was director of the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium from 1968 until 1985.
Career Teer was born in Haarlem on 6 June 1925. He studied electrical engineering at Delft University of Technology and obtained his degree in 1949. On 1 September 1950 he started working for the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium as a scientific employee in the television division under dr. Haantjes. In 1959 he obtained his doctorate at Delft University of Technology with a thesis titled: "Some investigations on redundancy and possible bandwidth compression in television transmission". He retired in 1985. At the privatization of the Koninklijke PTT Nederland in 1989 Teer became commissioner on the supervisory board.
In 1974 Teer was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Teer died in Amstelveen on 18 January 2021, aged 95.
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Dutch electrical engineer
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Kees Teer was born in 1925 in Haarlem.
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Kees Teer died on 18 January 2021 in Amstelveen.
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Kees Teer was a university teacher and electrical engineer.
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