Charles Herzfeld papers, 1892-2014

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Biographical Note

Date	Event
1925, June 29	Born, Vienna, Austria
1942	Arrived in the United States
1945	B.S., chemical engineering, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
1949	Granted American citizenship
1951	Ph.D., physical chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1951-1953	Physicist, United States Army Ordnance Corps, Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Md.
1953-1955	Physicist, United States Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
1953-1961	Physics instructor, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
1954	Married Norma Krause (divorced 1979)
1955-1956	Consultant to chief, Heat Division, National Bureau of Standards (now National Institute of Standards and Technology), Washington, D.C.
1957-1961	Chief, Heat Division, National Bureau of Standards (now National Institute of Standards and Technology), Washington, D.C.
1961	Associate director, National Bureau of Standards (now National Institute of Standards and Technology), Washington, D.C.
1961-1963	Director, ballistic missile defense program, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.
1963-1965	Assistant director, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.
1965-1967	Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.
1967-1974	Technical director, Defense Space Group, International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT), Nutley, N.J.
1969-1983	Member, Defense Science Board
1970-2000	Member, Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel
1970-1988	Consultant, Office of Science and Technology Policy
1972-1988	Consultant, National Security Council
1975-1977	Technical director, Aerospace, Electronics, Components and Energy Group, International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT), Nutley, N.J.
1977-1979	Technical director, Telecom and Electronics Group, International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT), Nutley, N.J.
1979-1981	Director of research, International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT), New York, N.Y.
1981	Married Zofia Elisabeth Dziewanowska (divorced 1990)
1983-1990	Member, Defense Policy Board
1981-1985	Vice president and director, Research and Technology, ITT Corp., New York, N.Y.
1985-1990	Vice chair, Aetna, Jacobs, and Ramo Technology Ventures, New York, N.Y.
1990	Married Shannon Stock Shuman
1990-1991	Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.
1991-1992	Senior consultant, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, D.C.
2014	Published A Life at Full Speed: A Journey of Struggle and Discovery. Arlington, Va.: Potomac Institute Press
2017, Feb. 23	Died, Silver Spring, Md.