GALCIT project no. 1 : weekly meeting minutes 1944 Jan - Dec.

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...

Charyk, Joseph V. (Joseph Vincent), 1920-

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Joseph Vincent Charyk was a leader in the development of satellite technology. The son of Ukrainian immigrants, he graduated from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1942 and received his Ph.D in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 1945. He was an instructor at Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, and specifically at the Cal Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He also worked for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in the 1950s. In 1963 he helped found and follo...

Denison, Frank L.

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Foster, Charles R

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Hough, E. W.

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Seifert, Howard S.

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Biography Howard Seifert, an authority on rocket propulsion of space vehicles, was professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford from 1960 to 1976. He also directed the Physical Sciences Laboratory at the United Aircraft Corporation (1960-65) and was president of the American Rocket Society (1960). Before joining the Stanford faculty, he was on the staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Space Technology Laboratories and a visiting...

Andrus, Rod.

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Van De Verg, Nathaniel.

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Kaplan, Nathan O. (Nathan Oram), 1917-1986

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Biochemist specializing in enzymology and chemotherapy. Associated first with Brandeis University (1957-1967) before accepting an appointment at the University of California, San Diego, in 1968, which he held until his death in 1986. Before assuming his position at Brandeis University, Kaplan worked as a research chemist for the Manhattan Project (1942-1944) and a researcher in the McCollum-Pratt Institute at Johns Hopkins University (1950-1957). In 1980, Kaplan was name...

Powell, Walter B., 1917-1994.

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Edelman, Rob

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Rob Edelman has been involved with film for over 20 years as a journalist, critic, teacher and author. He was actively pursuing a film history book when a publishing contact asked if he was interested in baseball, and would be willing to write a book on baseball and film. While researching and writing this book, Edelman watched as many baseball films as he could. It took over two years to collect the 400-plus photographs as well as to write the text. The majority of the photographs in the collec...

Meeks, Paul J., 1915-2002.

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Mills, Mark M.

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Weissbluth, Mitchel.

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Johnson, Stewart C. (Stewart Charles)

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Canright, Richard B.

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