He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984 and the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 1985 for "contributions to electronic devices". He is a 1974 IEEE Fellow and was the founding president of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society in 1977. Kressel received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University. He eventually became vice president of solid-state electronic research and development. The development of the first practical laser diodes and the first epitaxial silicon solar cell are also attributed to him. He was in charge of development and commercialization of research developments in a variety of fields including light sources, light detectors, and integrated circuits. Kressel joined RCA Laboratories in 1959, and spent 23 years there. in material science, also from the University of Pennsylvania. Kressel earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Yeshiva College, a master's in applied physics from Harvard University, an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. He entered Chaim Berlin High School in 1947 and graduated in 1951. Kressel's parents and sister were murdered in The Holocaust during World War II, after which Kressel emigrated to the United States.
He has been a board member of SRI International since 2001.
He is a partner and the senior managing director of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus. In 1980, Kressel was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering research in opto-electronic devices with specific emphasis on semiconductor lasers. 1934) is an American engineer, scientist, and financial executive.
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