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Born: March 23, 1913 Glendale, CA. BS in ME Univ. of Calif. 1937
Associate Fellow: American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics.
In 1942 he became a part of the Defense establishment and for 37 years he held positions of responsibility in defense and space engineering:
-In development of non-ricocheting aerial depth charges
-As test pilot in an experimental Navy glide-bomb
-As Senior Design Engineer for the Atomic Bombs at Los Alamos, NM
-At the Naval Air Missile Test Center, he developed methods for reducing guided missile test data into a usable format
-As Assistant to the Director of the BuAer Guided Missile Division, he wrote the report that resulted in the Polaris Program
-He developed the failure analysis for a large liquid rocket
-After several managerial positions in developing Space Programs, he held engineer and managerial positions for 17 years in Lockheed Space Division.
He retired in 1977.