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Astrophysics. Senior physicist, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, 1942-1946; astronomy consultant, Boeing Company, Chance-Vought Corp., Rand Corp., Grumman, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (NASA), U. S. Air Force moon-mapping project; product manager through chairman of the board, Oliver Machinery Company, 1947-1984.
Ralph Baldwin, a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was a graduate of the University of Michigan. In his career, he has been both a businessman and a respected scientist. For many years he was an officer, later president of the Oliver Machinery Company in Grand Rapids. Outside of his business, Baldwin was a scientist with many interests. During World War II, he was a senior physicist in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Here he helped develop the radio proximity fuze described in his book The Deadly Fuze . During this same approximate period, Baldwin formulated the principles of current lunar geology. He described his work in the book The Face of the Moon (1949).
Grand Rapids, Michigan manufacturing company executive, astronomer.
Astrophysics. Senior physicist, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, 1942-1946; astronomy consultant, Boeing Company, Chance-Vought Corp., Rand Corp., Grumman, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (NASA), U.S. Air Force moon-mapping project; product manager through chairman of the board, Oliver Machinery Company, 1947-1984.
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