Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.). Office of the Director.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) underwent an administrative reorganization after it became a sole contractor in 1958 to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The matrix organization of Divisions and Sections that is still in use at the Lab today was largely instituted around this time, although many of the research and administrative divisions were already in existence, and remained unchanged. For administrative purposes, the Office of the Director was made part of Division 10.

William Hayward Pickering, the Lab Director in 1958, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on December 24, 1910. He received his Doctorate in Physics in 1936 from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). After graduation, he joined the Caltech faculty, becoming a full professor of electrical engineering in 1946. Pickering joined JPL in 1944, on the basis of his experience in the design and use of telemetering devices. He was named chief of the Remote Control Section at JPL. Beginning in 1949, Pickering headed the Corporal and Sergeant missile programs, and in September 1954 he succeeded Louis Dunn as Laboratory Director.

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