International Geophysical Year, tracking and experiments : correspondence, 1956-1958.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California. The JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network. Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars Scien...

Schilling, Gerhard F.

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Schilling was with the Department of Environmental Sciences. Comments related to his position as chairman of the ad hoc Lunar and Deep Space Exploration Committee. From the description of Comments on draft of first section (of three) of Ranger Chronology : letter to R. Cargill Hall, JPL Historian, 1969 Jan 23. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733096787 ...

Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004

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Fred Lawrence Whipple was an astronomer, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1956. From the description of Correspondence, 1965-1975. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122579023 From the guide to the Fred Lawrence Whipple correspondence, 1965-1975, 1965-1975, (American Philosophical Society) Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906- ), an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), was noted for his research and...

Miyadi, Masasi,

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Porter, R. W. (Richard William)

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Hatanaka, Takeo, 1914-1963

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Grant, Gordon S.,

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Bowen, E. G. Commonwealth of Australia, Division of Radiophysics.

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Ludwig, George H.

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Pickering, W. H. (William Hayward), 1910-2004

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William Hayward Pickering was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on December 24, 1910. After one year at the University of New Zealand, he entered California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1929. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1932, his Master of Science degree in Physics in 1933, and his Doctorate in Physics in 1936, all from Caltech. After graduation, he joined the Caltech faculty, becoming a full professor of electrical engineering in 1...

O'Keefe, John A.

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Shapley, A. H.

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Richter, Henry L. Jr.

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Dosland, G. L.,

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Edgerton, Harold Eugene, 1903-1990

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Harold "Doc" Eugene Edgerton, 1903-1990, BS 1926, University of Nebraska; SM 1927 and ScD 1931 in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was professor of electrical engineering at MIT, 1928-1966; Institute Professor, 1966-1968; and Institute Professor emeritus, 1968-1990. Edgerton perfected the stroboscope and developed photographic techniques that allowed very rapid events to be observed and captured on film. He also developed techniques for underwater exploration,...

Butement, W. A. S.,

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Mengel, Jon T.,

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