Boris Z. Katsenelenbaum studied at the Moscow State University and received a professor diploma in 1965. Since 1954 he has held numerous positions at the URSS Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics/Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the latest that of Chief Scientist. He was also a Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1962-1985). Professor Katsenelenbaum has written about 150 articles and six books on various problems on high frequency electrodynamics and the diffraction theory. Since 1998 he has been living in Nahariya, Israel.