Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1918, July 16 | Born, St. Louis, Mo. |
1939 | B.S., electrical engineering, Missouri School of Mines, Rolla, Mo. |
1940 | M.S., electrical engineering, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. |
1940-1946 | Member, technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, N.Y. |
1941 | Married Maude Elizabeth Rosenbaum (divorced 1974) |
1946-1957 | Assistant professor and professor of electrical engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio |
1951 | Ph.D., physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio |
1955-1957 | Consultant, Ramo-Wooldridge Division, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif. |
1957-1963 | Director of Electronics Laboratories, director of Able space program, vice president for space systems management, and vice president for research and development, Space Technology Laboratories, Redondo Beach, Calif. |
1963-1969 | Associate administrator for manned space flight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C. |
1969-1971 | Senior vice president, General Dynamics Corp., New York, N.Y. |
1970 | Founder, Sea-Space Symposium, Philadelphia, Pa. National Medal of Science, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. |
1971 | Vice president, International Astronautical Federation |
1971-1981 | Chairman and president, System Development Corp., Santa Monica, Calif. |
1975-1981 | Director, Ocean Corp., Houston, Tex. |
1976 | Chairman, twenty-seventh congress, International Astronautical Federation, Anaheim, Calif. |
1976-1986 | Trustee, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Calif. |
1978 | Married Darla Jean Hix |
1979 | National Transportation Award, Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. |
1979-1980 | President, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
1981 | President, Jojoba Propagation Laboratories |
1981-1983 | Chairman and chief executive officer, System Development Corp., Santa Monica, Calif. Senior vice president, Burroughs Corp., Detroit, Mich. |
1982 | Founder, American Institute of Wine & Food, San Francisco, Calif. |
1982-1995 | President, International Academy of Astronautics |
1983 | Manager, Mueller Farms, Hyder, Ariz. |
1983-1985 | Director, Original Computer Camp, Santa Barbara, Calif. |
1983-1988 | Trustee, Laguna Blanca School, Santa Barbara, Calif. |
1984 | President, George E. Mueller Corp., Santa Monica, Calif. Trustee, University of California Foundation, Santa Barbarba, Calif. |
1987-1988 | President, Next Peripherals, Inc. |
1989 | Chairman, Desert King Jojoba Corp. |
1900 | Trustee, National Board of the Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
1995 | President and chief executive officer, Kistler Aerospace Corp., Seattle, Wash. |
2015, Oct. 12 | Died, Irvine, Calif. |